Question

What was Holmeberg's mistake

Answer 1

What was Holmberg's mistake you ask? Well, Holmberg was to guess that the people had always lived this way, that their point of view had remained stable from primitive times, and that they were fundamentally a people who had "absolutely no history".

Answer 2

Holmberg reported them to be “among the most culturally backward peoples of the world.” The mistake Holmberg made was to assume that these people had always lived this way, that their way of life had remained unchanged from primitive times, and that they were essentially a people who had “no real history.”