/2017/02/08/revisiting-the-ik/Andrew Curry's blog on futures, trends, emerging issues and scenariosTue, 30 Apr 2024 00:48:46 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com//2017/02/08/revisiting-the-ik/#comment-61303Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:48:46 +0000/?p=6671#comment-61303I read the Mountain People back in the 80s when I was in my early twenties. It was very disturbing to my youthful idealism. Turnbull seemed to really question the anthropological ethics of studying a starving people while not being able to share his food resources with them to any great extent without compromising the study. (As well he would not have had enough food for all.) In today’s terms I would describe him as a whistleblower about a post-colonial tragedy.

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