Talk:Ik (people)

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In this sentence it is unclear whether the book was derogatory towards the Ik people, or the treatment of them: Colin Turnbull wrote an extremely disparaging anthropology book about them called The Mountain People. ----

Both, possibly, but mainly towards the Ik people, I would say, whom Turnbull personally loathed and regarded as pretty much the worst of all possible societies. - Mustafaa 21:25, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

--This is original research, but I have read this book a couple of times and Turnbull hated the Ik. He was saddened by their plight, but he surly felt they were beyond hope.