This is a chapter of John Marshall's extraordinary chronicle of modern times for the indigenous people of Namibia, the Ju/'hoansi. Benefiting from footage Marshall shot beginning in 1951, it is deeply affecting in its reflection of the personal relationships the veteran filmmaker, known as "Long Face," has established with individuals like /Kxao Debe and /Qui, whom he knew as hopeful, newly liberated fledgling farmers, and now sees destroyed and reduced to eating seeds. Death by Myth is an exposé of the devastating effect of international aid that the Ju/'hoansi have been the subjects of since independence. Lately making their land a "wildlife preserve" for cultural tourism, in which the wildlife includes the people themselves, foundation aid is predicated on the "bushman myth" - the happy bushman seen in The Gods Must Be Crazy; the belief that bushmen are born to hunt and gather...ultimately, to starve. Marshall remains a brokenhearted activist for agriculture and education.