The Forest People by Colin M Turnbull

The Forest People by Colin M Turnbull

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.

Colin M.Turnbull is a Connecticut-based author who was born in London. He attended Westminster School and Oxford's Magdalen College, where he majored in philosophy and politics. After serving in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during WWII, he received a two-year research grant at Banaras Hindu University in India's Department of Indian Religion and Philosophy, and then went to Oxford to study anthropology with a focus on Africa. He has traveled to Africa on five separate occasions, the most recent of which was spent primarily in the Republic of Zare. He drew material for his first book, The Forest People, a three-year chronicle of his time with the Pygmies of Zare, from these excursions.

Turnbull was a professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he taught anthropology. He is a Corresponding Member of Le Musée Royal d'Afrique Centrale and a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

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ISBN 13	9780671640996
ISBN 10	0671640992
Title	The Forest People
Author	Colin M Turnbull
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	1987-07-02
Number of pages	14
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