Keith,

For someone who purports not to be offering a film review, you do an
excellent job of intriguing this reader's interest.  I had forgotten all
about the film, but now have made a note to see it.

> one woman spends some time explaining
> how her mother was also her grandmother as a result of marriages.

This reminds me of a humorous song called "I Am My Own Grandpa" in which the
writer/singer tells of a complex series of intermarriages that produce his
situation.  Genealogy is a long-standing passion of mine, and I charted the
lyrics once and found that the relationships worked correctly as in the
lyrics.

But the Inuit woman's relationship to her mother/grandmother is, in reality,
maybe not so unique to her culture--viz a viz the following message from a
researcher I know.  Read and ponder:
____________________
> I have to share this---I was just contacted by a BLESSING descendant from
> the town of Schlat, near Göppingen. When I ran the name of her ancestor
and
> myself through the relationship calculator in PAF, we were related in 94
> different ways.
>
> I maintain that if you are related to one person in a German town, you are
> related to everyone. Now I know that not only are you related, you're
> related in so many ways that it's a wonder that the children were normal.
___________________
As for my own case, a researcher located me through genealogical circles a
few years ago, and I was flabbergasted to chart his and my lineage and find
we were cousins from five different directions over a three-generation
period in the 1800's.

> This film has done a lot to alert me to my tendency to
> uncritical =91romantic primitivism=92 and has opened my eyes to aspects
>of
> hunter-gatherer life that I had not previously considered

Several months ago when I finally obtained a copy of Boyd Eaton's *The
Paleolithic Prescription* (which is out of print) I was deeply turned off by
the unbridled romanticization of paleo society/life.  Ditto with Bryan
Sykes's *The Seven Daughters of Eve,* though I found it an otherwise good
read.  The many hours I've spent with genealogy/historical research has
disabused me of the notion that there was ever such a thing as "the good old
days."  On the other list we belong to,  I cringe a little at times over the
paleo romanticism re: food.  Raw foodists in particular who prefer not to
believe that disease/parasitism ever occurred/occurs in wild animals/herds
modern grass-fed ones seem to be overly prone to this lop-sided view.

In Dec. we had a massive ice storm that kept us without electricity for
nearly four days.  These have become an annual event over the last few
years.  I thought I had seen all that nature can wreak until this year. I
can't even describe the amount of damage our forest sustained.  With trees
crashing and snapping, it sounded then and looks still like a bomb was
dropped on us.  As I looked out on the frozen world from my warm (backup
wood heat) but darkened house, I kept thinking about what an amazing species
we are to have survived the ice ages.

Thanks again for your very good film review.  This is a "must see."

Theola

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