Mbuti Pygmies by Colin M Turnbull

Mbuti Pygmies by Colin M Turnbull

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A study of the Mbuti pygmy hunter/gatherers of Zaire, with historical background on the Huri Forest, suggested correlatives between different forms of social organization and the environment, and details of the changes brought about by the "Zimba revolution" and independence.

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Mbuti Pygmies by Colin M Turnbull

A study of the Mbuti pygmy hunter/gatherers of Zaire, with historical background on the Huri Forest, suggested correlatives between different forms of social organization and the environment, and details of the changes brought about by the "Zimba revolution" and independence.

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 9780030615375
ISBN 10 0030615372
Title Mbuti Pygmies
Author Colin M Turnbull
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
Year published 1997-11-01
Number of pages 176
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