The forest people

Resource Information

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Label

The forest people

Statement of responsibility

Colin M. Turnbull

Creator

• Turnbull, Colin M

Subject

• Ethnology
• Ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Mbuti (African people)
• Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Mbuti (African people)

Language

eng

Summary

This classic work describes the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life. Turnbull conveys the lives and feelings of the BaMbuti whose existence centers on their intense love for their forest world, which, in return for their affection and trust, provides their every need. We witness their hunting parties and nomadic camps; their love affairs and ancient ceremonies -- the molimo, in which they praise the forest as provider, protector, and deity; the elima, in which the young girls come of age; and the nkumbi circumcision rites, in which the villagers of the surrounding non-Pygmy tribes attempt to impose their culture on the Pygmies, whose forest home they dare not enter

Member of

• Touchstone book

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

306/.089963

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DT650.B36

LC item number

T87 1968

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

A Touchstone book