The reading that I chose to summarize is “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari” by Robert Borshay Lee. This reading is about a social anthropologist Richard Lee, that is working with the !Kung Bushmen tribe, one of his goals was to study the hunting and gathering of this society. During Lee’s last Christmas with the tribe, Lee chose an ox to share with the tribe as a thank you for cooperating with his studies. Lee chose the biggest and heaviest ox, but the Bushman tribe told him that the ox wasn’t big enough because the ox was old and thin, one woman even said that “Everyone knows there’s no meat on that old ox”. Lee was disappointed because he was expecting a the tribe to be appreciative instead of taunting him.
