An encounter with a 21st century goatherd makes Jonathan Self wonder if things might one day again be simpler.
Why we possess a well-thumbed copy of Colin Turnbull’s 1961 classic, The Forest People: A Study of the Pygmies of the Congo, is anybody’s guess. Turnbull always makes me think of Evelyn Waugh’s fictional character John Boot, author of Waste of Time, ‘a studiously modest description of some harrowing months among the Patagonian Indians’.
Unlike Boot,…
