The Forest People

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.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Turnbull, Colin M Turnbull, Colin M. Turnbull
• Publisher: Bodley Head Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781847923806
• ISBN: 978-1-84792-380-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, RELIGION / Ethnic & Tribal, HISTORY / Africa / Central, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Biology, life sciences, Tribal religions, Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, Democratic Republic of Congo