Post by slowcoach on Mar 8, 2017 5:08:16 GMT 2
I have tried to read The astonishing vision and focus of Namibia’s nomads from the BBC Website.
Not only is it an inaccurate, stereotypical, bollox, I think it tips over into a literal racial .
I thought we had moved on.
Here is an extract:
Initially, Davidoff had been concerned about the ways these people would react to the laptops and electronic equipment that were crucial to some parts of his research; one colleague told him that the Himba would even be unfamiliar with pen or paper, let alone a computer. But he needn’t have worried; they seemed to adapt to the technology with no qualms at all.
Hmm, how do they cope at school?
FWIW: Jules Davidoff is a psychology professor at Goldsmiths University of London and researches: object recognition, colour, naming, and cognitive neuropsychology
When Jules Davidoff visited a Himba 'kraal', he found no traces of western influence in their way of life
Bloody Idiot!
It may not have occurred to him that they know how to trick a fool.
How can someone studying observation for a living be so bloody useless at it.
There are none so blind as those ...
One day in a Sesfontein I asked a local man who was our guide if he ever gets inquiries from tourists who want to meet a Himba. "It happens all the time".
The title is from an old anthropology joke.
