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The Forest People | Colin Turnbull

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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.

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The Forest People | Colin Turnbull

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This was a brilliant book about the pygmies of the congo and the year that the author spent with them. The author himself had an incredible life story and i found the book after hearing a radio 4 documentary.

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andrew61

The Forest People | Colin Turnbull

#welcometothejungle #junetunz
A couple of years ago i heard a brilliant documentary on radio 4 about colin turnbull a british anthropologist who served during the war in the navy, visited the congo pygmy tribes and buried his partner in the 80's from aids. Id never heard of him so i ordered this on e bay and it came as a battered copy with loads of underlining and highlights - a fascinating and empathetic picture of jungle life- it was a gr8 read.

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