In the article “Shakespeare in The Bush”, Laura Bohannan travels back to West Africa for the second time to live amongst the Bushmen to watch ceremonies. Before she set off for her journey, she was sure and wanted to prove to her colleague that human nature was pretty much the same worldwide and brought Hamlet along with her. Since the swamps continued to rise she couldn’t see the elders perform ceremonies, so all they could do was drink and tell stories. This gave Bohannan the opportunity to tell a story that meant a lot to her. Later on down the road, culture miscommunication took its course and she was challenged against the Tiv elders in finding the “true” interpretation of the story Hamlet. Bohannan’s fieldwork and the anthropological
