Some of the people enjoyed talking to me about Margaret Mead. Less than 50 of them remembered their traditional music. When I recorded on the islands of Trobriand, where the sociologist Malinowski had done important research. I was helped by a young man who was the traditional chief, who also had studied in Australia. He was an exception.
Bureaucracies tend to be sterile - they have no sense of humor, which is very dangerous.
I prefer to work alone now, and to finance my own recordings.