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The Forest People

Classic ethnographic study of Mbuti pygmies

Field	Value
name	The Forest People
image	File:TheForestPeople.jpg
image_size	First edition
author	Colin Turnbull
orig_lang_code	English
language	English
subject	Anthropology
genre	Non-fiction
set_in	Africa
publisher	Simon & Schuster
pub_date	1961
isbn	0671266500

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.

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.

References

(1999). "Another life: a memoir of other people". Random House.

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