Why were anthropologists so keen to study the !Kung in the 1960s and 70s?

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They did so because they were committed to the now old-fashioned anthropology of the time which sought to study ever more remote groups of people and the !Kung were at that point the most isolated people known to science.

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They did so because they were committed to a form of linguistic anthropology that saw in the many strange and unfamiliar sounds of the !Kung language the origins of human speech.

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They did so because they were committed Marxists who were deeply interested in documenting the marginalisation of the !Kung in the contemporary capitalist world system.

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They did so because they were committed to a kind of salvage anthropology that saw in the !Kung a romantic example of a pure foraging lifestyle according to which all humans had lived for the bulk of prehistory.

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Why were anthropologists so keen to study the !Kung in the 1960s and 70s?

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