The Forest People
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The Forest People (1961) is Colin Turnbull's admiring study of the Mbuti pygmies of the then-Belgian Congo (later Zaire and now Democratic Republic of Congo). In this widely popular book, the British-American anthropologist detailed his three years spent with the community in the late 1950s. The style is informal and accessible. As in a subsequent book, The Lonely African, he contrasts his forest-living subjects' lifestyle with that of nearby town-dwelling Africans and evaluates the interactions of the two groups.
[edit] External links
- Smithsonian listing of documentary footage of the area and communities described in the book
- Mbuti Pygmies @ National Geographic Magazine National Geographic Feature in September 2005
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