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The forest people

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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 Bodley Head Ltd
1847923801 / 9781847923806
Paperback / softback
01/10/2015
United Kingdom
English
272 pages
22 cm
Reprint. Originally published: London: Chatto and Windus, 1961.