May 6, 2009: Small on the loss of primative cultures - 0 Comments

"No one knows how many San still practice hunting and gathering, but clearly the traditional way of living is, for the most part, no more. . . Some might feel a sense of loss for the San way of life, but that would be unfair. All societies change, absorbing the ways of others, and who are we to say that the San must hold on to a lifestyle just because we think it provides clues to the past?
People are not museums."

- Meredith Small, Our Babies, Ourselves, 1998.