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).
Author | Colin Turnbull |
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Language | English |
Subject | Anthropology |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Set in | Africa |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 1961 |
ISBN | ISBN:0671266500 |
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]
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Forest People.
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