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Asking Hunter-Gatherers Life's Toughest Questions

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What it is

A travel vlogger asks the leader of the Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania some big life questions just before a baboon hunt. The short answers touch on meat, honey and what matters in life.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as a glimpse of present-day hunter-gatherer life, for example on diet and teeth, though one commenter calls it flippant and sensationalist.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “They say the important things in life are to have meat from hunting and to have honey from the bees, and that’s it.”

    Visit with the Hadza asking about life; meat and honey as meaning.

    lynguist, 2023-07 · Recommendation · in “Telling the Bees”

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Topics: hadza, tanzania, hunter-gatherers, anthropology, travel vlog

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