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Author : Colin M. Turnbull
Publisher : Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:49015000010794
This case focuses on the Mbuti pygmy hunter/gatherers of Zaire and their adaptation to change both before and after independence.
Author : Kevin Duffy
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478608585
This intimate study portrays the hunter-gatherer Mbuti pygmies of Zaire. Kevin Duffy describes how these forest nomads, who are as adapted to the forest as its wildlife, gratefully acknowledge their beloved home as the source of everything they need: food, clothing, shelter, and affection. Looking on the forest in deified terms, they sing and pray to it and call themselves its children. With his patience and knowledge of their ways, Duffy was accepted by these, the worlds smallest people, and invited to participate in the cycle of their lives from birth to death.
Author : Kevin Duffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Mbuti (African people)
ISBN : OCLC:1259234966
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986129837
*Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Mbuti *Includes ancient descriptions of pygmies and theories about their evolution. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. "[T]heir eyes had an untameable wildness about them that struck me as very remarkable." - French-American explorer Paul du Chaillu, 1867 The indigenous Africans known as pygmies have interested outsiders for thousands of years. In the 2200s B.C., the Egyptian Pharaoh Pepi II referred to one as a "dancing dwarf of the god from the land of spirits," and the Ancient Greeks were also familiar with them. Homer makes mention of pygmies in The Iliad, and Herodotus recounted the experiences of a Persian explorer who encountered "dwarfish people, who used clothing made from the palm tree" on the western coast of Africa. In fact, the term pygmy comes from the Greek word for "dwarfish." Not surprisingly, foreigners' interest in pygmies has never waned. When medieval Europeans first traveled to Africa and parts of Asia, many of them were stunned when they encountered people who were considerably smaller than the average height. Perhaps the most famous account comes from the legendary Marco Polo, who was so confused about the people known as pygmies that he refused to believe they were actually human. In his famous account, Marco Polo wrote about seeing some of them in Indonesia, "I may tell you moreover that when people bring home pygmies which they allege to come from India, 'tis all a lie and a cheat...for nowhere in India nor anywhere else in the world were there ever men seen so small as these pretended pygmies." Marco Polo believed that the pygmies were actually monkeys that people manipulated and shaved to resemble smaller people. Today, of course, anthropologists know a lot more about the pygmies, a collective of indigenous groups in Africa who are still defined by the fact that they have an average height of less than 5 feet tall. But while their short height and their apparent evolutionary differences make for a source of fascination in modern times, their very visible physical differences made it that much easier for foreigners to justify military conquest. Scholars believe that prior to European invasion, the pygmies occupied a significant swath of land across and numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Ultimately, however, external forces have resulted in the groups dwindling in numbers and being dispossessed of much of their traditional homelands. In the 21st century, the Mbuti, one of the prominent groups of pygmy peoples, and who once numbered about 150,000, now number about 40,000 and are centralized primarily in the Ituri Forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), a tropical rainforest covering less than 25,000 square miles. Civilizations of Africa: The History and Culture of the Mbuti (Pygmy) comprehensively covers the history and culture of the people, from their origins to the present time. Along with pictures and a bibliography, you will learn about the Mbuti like you never have before, in no time at all.
Author : Colin Turnbull
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473524170
The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology. For three years, Colin Turnbull lived with an isolated group of Pygmies deep in the forest of the African Congo, experiencing their daily life first-hand. He attended their hunting parties and initiation ceremonies, witnessed their music and their rituals, observed their quarrels and love affairs. He documented them as an anthropologist but was accepted among them as a friend. A ground-breaking work in its time, The Forest People made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. It remains a transporting account of an earthly paradise and of a legendary and fascinating people. With a new foreword by Horatio Clare.
Author : Sonia Bleeker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : IND:32000003227321
Describes the customs and way of life of the Pygmy peoples, especially the Mbuti tribe, who live in the rainforests of the northeast Congo.
Author : Colin M. Turnbull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 197?
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : OCLC:1067988863
"The Forest People (1961) is Colin Turnbull's ethnographic study of the Mbuti pygmies of the then-Belgian Congo (later Zaire and now Democratic Republic of Congo). "The Forest People" First edition AuthorColin Turnbull LanguageEnglish SubjectAnthropology GenreNon-Fiction Set inAfrica PublisherSimon & Schuster Publication date 1961 ISBN0671266500 In this book, the British-American anthropologist detailed his three years spent with the community in the late 1950s. The style is informal and accessible. Turnbull contrasts his forest-living subjects' lifestyle with that of nearby town-dwelling Africans and evaluates the interactions of the two groups. The editor for the book was Michael Korda who attended Oxford University with Turnbull.[1] The Forest People was the version for a general readership of Turnbull's academic thesis, which was published in an expanded, more technical form by Routledge in London as Wayward Servants: The Two Worlds of the African Pygmies (1965). Turnbull wrote about his experiences with the tribe from a first person perspective as he trove through many years with the African Pygmies. The Mbuti tribe respected him, and attempted to show him their cultural prospects as a society until a drastic change in their lifestyles occurred"--Taken from Wikipedia.
Author : Justin Wren
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476791753
"From notable mixed martial artist and UFC fighter, Justin Wren, comes a personal account of faith, redemption, empowerment, and overwhelming love as one man sets out on an international mission to fight for those who can't fight for themselves. Justin Wren knows what it's like to feel like the world is against you. Like many kids, Justin was bullied as a child, but had a dream that kept him going. Fueled by the anger he felt toward his tormenters, Justin trained hard and propelled his dream of becoming a UFC fighter into reality. But the pain from his childhood didn't dissipate and Justin fell into a spiral of depression and addiction, leading him on a path toward destruction. After getting kicked out of his training community, his career was in shambles and he had nowhere else to go, so Justin attended a men's retreat, and it was there he found God. As Justin began piecing his life back together, he joined several international mission trips that opened his eyes and his heart to a world filled with suffering deep in the jungle of the Democratic Republic of Congo. There he came across the Mbuti Pygmy tribe, a group of people persecuted by neighboring tribes and forced into slavery. His encounter with the Pygmy tribe left him wondering who was there to help them and in that moment Justin stepped out of the ring and into a fight for the forgotten. From cage fighter to freedom fighter, Justin's story is a deeply personal memoir with a bigger message about a quest, justice, and the amazing things that can happen when we relinquish our lives to God"--
Author : Isaac Bacirongo,Michael Wallace Nest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Pygmies
ISBN : 192504842X
Still a Pygmy is a story of love, pride and prejudice that traces the journey of BaTembo Pygmy Isaac Bacirongo from the forests of Central Africa, through the brutality of dictatorship and war, to arrival and settlement in Australia's melting pot. Isaac's inimitable style and voice draw readers into the heart of this memoir, his relationship with his wife, who survived his mother's attempts to kill her and who helped Isaac through experiences of appalling violence. It is full of warmth, wit and wise insights about life -especially family life and child-rearing. Isaac Bacirongo grew up as a Pygmy hunter-gatherer in the Congo. However, when his Papa left the forest to find work, Isaac went to missionary school, where he fell in love with scientific reason and rejected his mission teachings. He courted and wed Josephine, a 'town girl', whom his mother hated. Complaining that her new daughter-in-law would not be able to catch crabs or collect firewood, she engaged a witchdoctor in an attempt to kill her. Isaac and Josephine moved to the city, and he became a prosperous businessman. Isaac become a community leader involved in the fight for Pygmy rights, but he was imprisoned for his activism by the brutal regime that controls Eastern Congo. He bribed his way out of jail and fled to Kenya with his wife and 10 children in 2000. there he becomes an interpreter on a corruption investigation into the UNHCR. Granted a humanitarian visa, the family resettled as refugees in Sydney, but life started to unravel under the pressure of domestic violence, his children's assimilation and an Australian workplace that tested Isaac's African values. Although this memoir is Isaac's personal story, unique in its perspective on life as a Pygmy, it is also a universal story about the tragedies and challenges faced by many refugees and migrants, and their indomitable spirit they display in rising above challenges and confronting change to touch and transform the new communities they join.
Author : Colin Turnbull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : 9780671640996
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.
Author : Colin M. Turnbull
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004910165
Author : Georges Meurant,Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500974306
Provides a close analysis of the drawings, examining them both thematically and aesthetically
Author : Colin M. Turnbull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Africa, Eastern
ISBN : UCSC:32106000734571
Author : L L Cavalli-sforza,Paolo Menozzi,Alberto Piazza
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691187266
Hailed as a breakthrough in the understanding of human evolution, The History and Geography of Human Genes offers the first full-scale reconstruction of where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world. By mapping the worldwide geographic distribution of genes for over 110 traits in over 1800 primarily aboriginal populations, the authors charted migrations and devised a clock by which to date evolutionary history. This monumental work is now available in a more affordable paperback edition without the myriad illustrations and maps, but containing the full text and partial appendices of the authors' pathbreaking endeavor.
Author : Hans Dieter Neuwinger
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 3826100778
