It remains a transporting account of an earthly paradise and of a legendary and fascinating people. Read more the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. A ground-breaking work in its time, The Forest People made him one of. He documented them as an anthropologist but was accepted among them as a friend. He attended their hunting parties and initiation ceremonies, witnessed their music and their rituals, observed their quarrels and love affairs. 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. 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. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). This is about earthly paradise and of a legendary and people. An account of a hunter - gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature. Description for The Forest People Paperback. The Forest People: Africas Pygmy Tribes Along the Congo River - their Hunter-Gatherer Culture, Village Customs and Bond with Nature Colin M. Turnbulls best-selling, classic work - describes the authors experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life.
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