An Excerpt From The Movie 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'

1) After analyzing the lives of the Kalahari people, we can see what levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of motivations/needs their lives are meeting. The levels I believe are being met consist of physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness needs, and esteem needs. From the movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy” we can see the Kalahari people are meeting their physiological needs through hunting and gathering. The Kalahari use hunting to acquire meat from animals and use gathering to acquire edible things in their environment. Such as bugs, berries, and roots. They also use gathering to acquire water by collecting tubas, dew drops from leaves, and grass. By doing this they are fulfilling their physiological needs and meeting the basic needs for their people to survive.
We can also see their safety needs are …show more content…
Since they live in an extremely treacherous desert it doesn’t allow for people to try an original plan to solve a problem or try new ways to figure something out. This is because their environment presents specific problems and causes a repetitive lifestyle to ensure the survival of their people. If they try original ways to solve their problems they might fail and as a result, their lives could suffer drastically. For example, if they tried a new way to acquire water it might not work and since water is scarce here they might have to go days without it. Rather than just doing what they know works to get water and satisfy their physiological need for it. They get forced to continue what they know works to solve their problems because they want to survive. If they try something new to get food or try to eat something different than what they are accustomed to eating it could also prove fatal. This is because it could result in them not being able to obtain food or have them eat something that is dangerous to their bodies once