Tomaselli

With regards to the Article: The Ju/’hoansi and cultural tourism, Tomaselli Discusses how in the early history of contact between San and White settlers they encountered tried to conserve the Other in museums, films and photos. He discusses “The Bushmen as stark hunters and gathers who were unaware of money” they could kill animals but couldn’t raise them. Had vast land to farm but had no experience or knowledge of farming. Westerners have a way of making small any group that is different from them if the central focus is not capitalism than this group is not developed or are primitive or naïve. He points out that the Bushmen were a happy race, free from strains and stresses of civilization. Crime was unknown; they would avoid trouble and were honest. [Davis 1954:57].
Westerners to describe others as Wild and tame, Tomaselli discusses Perrott’s thoughts on how tourism and Anthropology tends to destroy the Others way of life and explains how we can co-exist through a paradox for example the Kayopo use video cameras to document and reinvent themselves and their culture to those in the West. Are there ways for one to keep their cultural identity and still be productive world beings?
Westerners tend to embellish on the ‘Other’ by representing them as primitive, poor or unenlightened. The Other are faced with the difficult task of allowing themselves to be exploited by westerners or using the westerners to their benefit. In the case of the Ju/’hoansi and there line between tourist, filmmaker and anthropologist become blurred and to them they are the people with the money that provides work as N!ai explained in the movie. Their economy is now dependent on the Filmmakers, the Tourist and the Anthropologist.