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One big point is, he wasn't re-creating, he was creating, from his ideas.

Every beginner at anthropology, every amateur at paleontology, imagines you can predict prehistoric life from say Kalahari Bushmen.
FALSE.

The Bushmen of the Kalahari developed a hunter-gatherer lifestyle only within the last 400 years, in response to invasions by Bantu peoples.

I have no idea how long Hadzabe have been hunter-gatherers; at the very least, at least 400 years; maybe far longer. But they do not know

For the Hadzabe, it was always like this for them; but oral histories, group- and individual-memories can be very misleading. So who knows?

Tony Hillerman & Martin Cruz Smith have each written about attempts @ recreating old Navajo & Hopi lifestyles; the same considerations apply

illegal bushmeat (poached animals) trade is very big - including in London, England. Flown in, like qat used to be
bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

Like qat agriculture is destroying the Yemen & society, b/c aridification, loss of water, so too will poaching destroy some African nations

The problem for all those like John is, it's *NOT* just local villagers doing poaching. It's big, powerful Chinese and Vietnamese mafias.

One day all elephants will be gone in that area. Tourism will simply stop. I guess the villagers will then think it's always been like that

In other words, they are destroying future & present prosperity in the name of identity (hey, Farage!) & of #ProsperityGospel, highly ironic

John, as guide, found it much more understandable when I photographed big things, not small things, like this colobus monkey in mid-flight

Colobus monkey again, all on that same day as meeting John the guide, the butterfly, the ants and so on.

Everyone can understand photoing big fluffy things like a colobus monkey. Few understand the regrets of rejecting an elephant-dung spliff.

Next time I probably won't reject such a spliff; though I continue to be wary of all parasites and infections. Same colobus again.

Tree-snake, a tiny one. You can also see the end of its tail. Again on that same day of all of that true story.

Same tree-snake. It was tiny. And far away, and skittery.

A kind of kingfisher, again on that same day.

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