> Chris Maser "Re-learning" what we've forgotten ---The !Kung Bushmen of > southern Africa, for example, spent only twelve to nineteen hours a week getting food because their work was social and cooperative, which means they obtained their particular food items with the least possible expenditure of energy. Thus, they had abundant time for eating, drinking, playing, and general socializing. <
what does he think of the ECONOMIST's assertion that : the !Kung didn't have to work very hard because the anthropologists who did these estimates gave them jeep-rides, etc.? -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
