Anthropology, I choose YOU!

So I chose Anthropology Environment & Culture over Microeconomics, and got a sweet deal in the process- $Econ textbook return - $Anthro textbook= $70+
I got a SURPLUS of $$ .. =P
First class of Anthro, which is THE class I will compare to Econ and thus influence my decision, the prof says...
"So today we are going to continue the movie."
I'm thinking, "What movie?!" .......
And for the rest of the class, I watch the Kalahari Sand People of Africa track, hunt, poison, kill, and cut into hunks and strips, a giraffe. I could feel the flinches rippling through parts of the class during the weakened giraffe's last stand, as the hunters tried to finish it off by aiming for its eyes and nose with a spear. I'd never seen the insides and organs of a giraffe before, nor had I wanted to know what it would look like if someone were to amputate its foot. Oh, I saw.

I'm finding this course interesting.. I'm learning about different cultures and peoples, and
However, the readings and the course in general makes me feel stupid sometimes =(
Guess I should be expanding my vocabulary.. the first time I opened my Anthro book (textbook, but it's 3 times thinner than the first Harry Potter book) I was thinking what the hell are they talking about? Actually, I still feel like that. Long, twisty sentences chock full of terms....... Why can't the information be presented in a shorter, simpler way? Okay, that was a rhetorical question. See, I'm sitting here with pages and pages of readings about things like,
"The important question concerning cognized models in this view is not the extent to which they are identical with what the analyst takes to be reality but the extent to which they direct behavior in ways that are appropriate to the biological well-being of the actors and of the ecosystems in which they participate."
I can't think of a better example right now, as this one isn't bad.

But on to something I really like about this class- films! I'm counting the films listed in the syllabus, and it turns out to be about 13! That's about 1 film/3 classes! And they're really interesting too. I was effected by Part 4 of Millennium: tribal Wisdom and the Modern World, a series. It featured the Makuna of Columbia, and it was titled "An Ecology of Mind". This man left his home to go live in the 'modern world' for a while, got education, etc. and returned home again. He wanted to go back and learn the culture and values of the Makuna, and the difficulties he has with this was accompanied by a lot of profound lines in the narration. It really effectived me, probably because it was just so personal, and the narration, the film, the music...
"I went to school for knowledge, but did I lose wisdom?"
"Will I always see like a white man?"
If you can find this Part 4, or any other part of this series, watch! I can't find it anywhere....