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This classic work describes the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life. Turnbull conveys the lives and feelings of the BaMbuti whose existence centers on their intense love for their forest world, which, in return for their affection and trust, provides their every need. We witness their hunting parties and nomadic camps; their...
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"Colin Turnbull was one of the most well-known anthropologists of the twentieth century." "Raised in the upper echelons of British society, Turnbull worked at various times as a gold miner, builder of the African Queen, and consultant to famed theater director Peter Brook. He lived through some of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century; fighting in World War II and dying of AIDS in 1994"--Jacket.
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Joan Mark offers here an interpretative biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953), the U.S. anthropologist who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in present-day Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious multiracial community. Putnam modeled his camp on the "dude ranches" of the American West and took in paying guests while running a medical clinic and occasionally offering...
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