The Dobe Ju/’hoansi and Cultural Relativity
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(Preface), Lee describes hearing of John F. Kennedy’s assassination over the
radio while around the fire with the Ju… “Only a dew had heard of ‘America’ or the
‘United States’ and no one could name to name of America’s great chief.” In the next
paragraph, Lee describes a scene in which the Ju are listening to their radios listening to
news coming from Russia about the attempted overthrow in Moscow.
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(preface), “The ¡Kung call themselves—and always have—Ju/’hoansi… meaning
“real people.”
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pg 6, “I asked them if I could come and stay with them and learn their language, and
after much discussion they agreed. Would they be interested in learning English in
return? This question, when it passed through the interpreters, was greeted with gales of
laughter.
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Toma// gwe chortled no, that the sounds of the Europeans made were much
too difficult for him. I replied that
we
found their click sounds impossible to pronounce.
This was met with puzzled but sympathetic looks.”
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- Spring '09
- Hudgins
- Cultural Anthropology, pg, Ju, Dobe Ju, Ju women, Ju woman, Ju perception
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