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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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Life-enhancing, extraordinarily vivid … It is impossible to praise this book too highly * Listener *
A book of quite exceptional charm * New Statesman *
The reader feels sheer delight in an entirely new world -- Margaret Mead
Amazing ... It inspired me to seek out wild places -- Ray Mears

The Forest People

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      Publisher Vintage Publishing
      Published 1 October 2015
      ISBN-13 9781847923806
      978-1847923806
      ISBN-10 1847923801
      Also in:
      Anthropology Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      Life-enhancing, extraordinarily vivid … It is impossible to praise this book too highly * Listener *
      A book of quite exceptional charm * New Statesman *
      The reader feels sheer delight in an entirely new world -- Margaret Mead
      Amazing ... It inspired me to seek out wild places -- Ray Mears

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