Border of Silence

With academic ideals in mind, Levi Cartwright, a doctor of anthropology from the University of Cambridge, went deep into the edge of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa to conduct ecological research on the ancient San (Bushmen) tribe. However, the ambition was quickly shattered against the iron wall of reality. He found that there was a deep and silent boundary between himself and the subjects of his research - this boundary was built by the obscure Khoisan dialect full of poetic metaphors, solidified by completely different worldviews (animism, reverence for nature vs. Scientific rationality, control of the environment), and highlighted by the irreconcilable differences in daily behavior.