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by Colin Turnbull


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The bestselling, classic text on one anthropologist's incredible experience living among the African Mbuti Pygmies, and what he learned from their culture, customs, and love of life. In this bestselling book, Colin Turnbull, a British cultural anthropologist, details the incredible Mbuti pygmy people and their love of the forest, and each other. Turnbull lived among the Mbuti people for three years as an observer, not a researcher, so he offers a charming and intimate firsthand account of the people and their culture, and especially the individuals and their personalities. The Forest People is a timeless work of academic and humanitarian significance, sure to delight readers as they take a trip into a foreign culture and learn to appreciate the joys of life through the eyes of the Mbuti people.

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  • Title The Forest People
  • Author Colin Turnbull
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone Books, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1987-07-02
  • ISBN 9780671640996 / 0671640992
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.4 x 0.81 in (20.96 x 13.72 x 2.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Library of Congress subjects Mbuti (African people), Ethnology - Congo (Democratic Republic)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87004780
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.089

About the author

Colin M. Turnbull was born in London, and now lives in Connecticut. He was educated at Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied philosophy and politics. After serving in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II, he held a research grant for two years in the Department of Indian Religion and Philosophy at Banaras Hindu University, in India, and then returned to Oxford, where he studied anthropology, specializing in the African field. He has made five extended field trips to Africa, the last of which was spent mainly in the Republic of Zare. From these trips he drew the material for his first book, The Forest People, an account of the three years he spent with the Pygmies of Zare. Mr. Turnbull was a Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and a Corresponding Member of Le Muse Royal d'Afrique Centrale.
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