Dance & Drink & Screw

Another thing that struck me at the beginning of this section as interesting was how people with deficiencies in Congo are perceived to be just the same - just as capable of working and going about their business. So we have those surreal scenes where the family see members of the village with no legs going down to the river and returning (crawling?) with large bundles on their heads. I wonder if it ties somehow to the villagers notions of ghosts and gods, that this world is not that separate from the other (the loss of the material, i.e. legs, isn't that big of a deal - but what's important is doing one's duty and staying on the good side of the gods).