The Forest People by Colin M. Turnbull
A Study of the Pygmies of the Congo
An intimate ethnographic account of a hunter-gatherer people living in the Ituri Forest, portraying their daily life, social structures, music, rituals and relationships with the forest environment. Based on prolonged participant-observation, it conveys the community’s egalitarian values, cooperative hunting and foraging practices, and the central role of song and storytelling, while also documenting the pressures and misunderstandings arising from contact with outside colonial and modern forces.
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- 1961
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- British
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