Adi007 said:
"Primitive living instructor" feels to me a bit like the phrase "martial arts instructor" or "I'm a computers expert" - the question that would follow would be "define that". What period of human history? What climate? What ecology? I sincerely doubt that anyone can learn let alone teach every aspect of primitive living ever since the dawn of time in all conditions, climates and ecosystems. A "primitive living anthropologist" or "primitive living archaeologist" I can understand because that implies study in a field but "instructor" or "teacher" (or any other such noun) would, in my mind, be vague commercial fluff.
For example, I'll assume that most if not all people here live with modern telecommunications, water and power supply and a complex social structure that binds this together - how equipped are you to go and "teach" or "instruct" primative people (or aliens for that matter) in "modern living skills"?
Excellent point Mate! :You_Rock_ its like the classic ex-sas survival instructor as opposeed to plan old survival instructor. However I was using the term instructor to diffientiate between the two, I could equally have said,
I'm a student of Bushcraft
Or
I'm a student of primitive living
The point is being a something of one or the other doesnt matter its the subject and the question of the difference in the core skills.
Adi here you have hit many nails on the head - "I find it odd that there are so many discussions on terms here and I think I have an idea as to why this is so - it's because we now live in a world where "skills" have been bought together (rather haphazardly in many cases) under single word or banner phrases such as "bushcraft", "primitive living", "survival skills" and so on. It's an artificial way to bundle together ideas for commercial consumption (much like modern day "lifestyle gurus" who repackage living int he modern world under a cool buzzword and a few bullet points"
Well donr mate - excellent answer IMO :You_Rock_