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David Simpson Anthropology

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The film, “Milking the Rhino”, by David E. Simpson, he shows the traditional relationships between the Himbia, Massai and wildlife in the film by allowing real people to testify their opinions. Simpson through the film helped explain the main differences between traditional wildlife conservation and community- based methods. Lastly, Simpson shows the audience the impact that the role of western conceptions of Africa and western tourism in Africa has on conservation efforts. The traditional relationships between the Himbia, Massai and wildlife seems to be a struggle. They had to learn how to balance cattle grazing, tourism and conservation. There was a big drought taking place with affected the land, the cattle and wildlife. The land was not producing grass for their cattle to eat. The cattle was becoming weak and slowly dying off. In the film they were trying to save as many cattle as they could. When the calf would get tired they would pick them up and put them on their back and carry them …show more content…

This way of conservation was very effective; however some people became impatient and wanted to disturb the area before time. Community- based methods of conservation was pracriced by the Massai. They became smarter through this type of conservation through their tourist. The Massai build lodges for the tourist to stay when they came to Africa to get a feel for this type of environment but they also wanted to make it very comfortable for the tourist to stay. These lodges brought income into the city and this money was used to help build roads, help the community, and put into the schools for their future generation. The lodges was very good to them and they learned a lot form the tourist when they came. They learned that they needed to have a menu of what they would serve at the lodge that day, and an even exchange for the

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