You've got the title of this post correct: blockbuster flick Avatar meets the
delightful film The Gods Must Be Crazy meets James Workman's book Heart of Dryness.
Rebekah alerted me to a short video that's been posted on the book's WWW site that makes a connection among the films and the book, which I reviewed late last summer.
The video is by Vanessa Workman. I'll use my powers of reasoning here to assume that she is James Workman's spouse, sister, or relative.
Here is the burb from the YouTube site:
Author discovers from indigenous a 30,000 year old secret on climate change adaptation. Book Trailer of Heart of Dryness. A true story of how the last Bushmen of Botswana were expelled from their land, in the name of development and diamonds. "The tribal David's triumph over the Governmental Goliath is riveting" PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. An amazing story from amazing people, in the heart of an amazing jewel of our planet. A portion of the author's royalties are transferred to the Bushmen of the Kalahari.
It is an interesting analogy. I am one of the ten people who's not seen Avatar, but I know it's about the war against an indigenous population to obtain access to a precious resource, unobtanium, which Earth desperately needs. Sound familiar?
The Bushmen are being displaced, but as I said in my book review, the dispute is about land, not water; the Bushmen have no water.
"We don’t govern water. Water governs us.” – James G. Workman
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