The Forest People

The Forest People

"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.

External links

* [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!218991!0 Smithsonian listing] of documentary footage of the area and communities described in the book

* [http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0509/feature5 Mbuti Pygmies @ National Geographic Magazine] National Geographic Feature in September 2005


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