The Forest People
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The Forest People (1961) is Colin Turnbull's ethnographic study of the Mbuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what was then the Belgian Congo.
In this book, the British-American anthropologist detailed his three years spent with the community in the mid 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. The Mbuti tribe respected him, and attempted to show him their cultural prospects as a society until a drastic change in their lifestyles occurred.Template:Explain
References
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External links
- Smithsonian listing of documentary footage of the area and communities described in the book
- BaMbuti Pygmies @ National Geographic Magazine National Geographic Feature in September 2005