I believe one of the most difficult aspects of anthropology is to extract ones own cultural biases from observations. >> Play is not an anomaly, but the essenc

I believe one of the most difficult aspects of anthropology is to extract ones own cultural biases from observations. >> Play is not an anomaly, but the essence of personal and technological development It's not that I disagree with you per se. Rather that you just stated baldly as fact, what are clearly just your own (and my own) biases. >> a play-less culture is not resilient at all, and therefore prone to extinction. Perhaps, but against that, it seems the Baining people have been this way for at least a hundred years. Perhaps considerably longer.