I follow the light from the tree top. I hear the Sun Dance songs that give us life, make us dance and connect us all. I give appreciation, for the water, the wind, the fire, the earth, and life. I am closer to earth and I pray that I may live another day. That the stars may shine at night. That the children may smile. That we may express appreciation. […]
The Tracker: an Aboriginal character study
The Tracker (2002) is a powerful Australian drama written and directed by Rolf De Heer (Ten Canoes, Dingo). Set in the Australian outback in 1922, the film tells the story of a racist white policeman (Gary Sweet) and his half-willing posse, who have pressed an Aboriginal man (David Gulpilil) into service to hunt down the accused killer of a white woman. Viewers readily empathize with the predicament of the Tracker, […]
Jared Diamond: Why study traditional societies?
Why do we find “traditional” societies so fascinating?[1] Partly, it’s because of their human interest: the fascination of getting to know people who are so similar to us and understandable in some ways, and so unlike us and hard to understand in other ways. When I arrived in New Guinea for the first time, in 1964 at the age of 26, I was struck by the exoticness of New Guineans: […]
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