The Forest People

The Forest People
by Colin Turnbull

The Forest People
List Price: $16.00
Our Price: $4.40
You Save: $11.60 (72%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.98 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions


(Click here)
Buy this book at online book store in your country
Canada | UK | Germany | France

Book Summary Information

Author: Colin Turnbull
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1987-07-02
ISBN: 0671640992
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Touchstone
Product features:
  • ISBN13: 9780671640996
  • Condition: USED - Very Good
  • Notes: 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

Summary of The Forest People

The Forest People -- Colin M. Turnbull's best-selling, 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 love affairs and ancient ceremonies -- the molimo, in which they praise the forest as provider, protector, and deity; the elima, in which the young girls come of age; and the nkumbi circumcision rites, in which the villagers of the surrounding non-Pygmy tribes attempt to impose their culture on the Pygmies, whose forest home they dare not enter.

The Forest People eloquently shows us a people who have found in the forest something that makes their life more than just living -- a life that, with all its hardships and problems and tragedies, is a wonderful thing of happiness and joy.

Democratic Republic of Congo Books

Book Subjects
Most talked about in Democratic Republic of Congo Books
Pioneering On the Congo, Volume 2 ImagePioneering On the Congo, Volume 2
by William Holman Bentley
Nabu Press; Published: 2010-01-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $20.90
Price in other shops: $36.75
Long Journeys: An Arkansas Family in Africa . . . a scrapbook of memories and history ImageLong Journeys: An Arkansas Family in Africa . . . a scrapbook of memories and history
by Sarah McKee Burnside
Phoenix International; Published: 2007-01-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $21.87
Price in other shops: $24.95
Zaire: School & politics ImageZaire: School & politics
by A. Mizaba Djunga Abedi
UNM Printing Services; Published: 1994; Paperback; Book
Colonialism In Congo Basin: 1880-1940 (Ohio RIS Africa Series) ImageColonialism In Congo Basin: 1880-1940 (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
by Samuel H. Nelson
Ohio University Press; Published: 1994-08-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $19.98
Price in other shops: $32.00
Peace-keeping by U.N. forces ImagePeace-keeping by U.N. forces
by Arthur Lee Burns
Greenwood Press; Published: 1975; Unknown Binding; Book
Angola and the River Congo (2 Vol. Set) ImageAngola and the River Congo (2 Vol. Set)
by John Joachim Monteiro
Routledge; Published: 1968-03-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $184.41
Price in other shops: $190.00
Storm over the Congo ImageStorm over the Congo
by Dwarka N. Chatterjee
Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division; Published: 1980-06; Hardcover; Book
Price in other shops: $22.50
The Blind Lion of the Congo ImageThe Blind Lion of the Congo
by Harry Lincoln Sayler, Elliott Whitney
BiblioBazaar; Published: 2008-08-21; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.47
Price in other shops: $23.99
Among Congo Pigmies ImageAmong Congo Pigmies
by Paul Schebesta
Ams Pr Inc; Published: 1933-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $37.96
Price in other shops: $52.00
The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo ImageThe Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo
by Daniel Liebowitz, Charles Pearson
W. W. Norton & Company; Published: 2006-07-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.67
Price in other shops: $15.95
Similar Books and other products
Scottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) ImageScottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by Susan Parman
Wadsworth Publishing; Published: 2004-04-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $41.01
Price in other shops: $49.95
The Left Hand of Darkness ImageThe Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ace Trade; Published: 2000-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.50
Price in other shops: $16.00
The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) ImageThe Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by E. Adamson Hoebel
Wadsworth Publishing; Published: 1978-03-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $25.55
Price in other shops: $51.95
Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film (with Ethnographic Film Clips DVD) (4th Edition) ImageSeeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film (with Ethnographic Film Clips DVD) (4th Edition)
by Karl G. Heider, Pamela A.R. Blakely, Thomas D. Blakely
Allyn & Bacon; Published: 2006-09-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $97.17
Price in other shops: $123.40
New Pioneers in the Heartland: Hmong Life in Wisconsin (Part of the New Immigrants Series) ImageNew Pioneers in the Heartland: Hmong Life in Wisconsin (Part of the New Immigrants Series)
by Jo Ann Koltyk, Nancy Foner
Allyn & Bacon; Published: 1997-08-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $35.73
Price in other shops: $37.40
Nest in the Wind: Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical Island, Second Edition ImageNest in the Wind: Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical Island, Second Edition
by Martha C. Ward
Waveland Press; Published: 2004-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.18
Price in other shops: $17.95
Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India ImageNeither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India
by Serena Nanda
Wadsworth Publishing; Published: 1998-11-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $39.79
Price in other shops: $58.95
Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology ImageCore Concepts in Cultural Anthropology
by Robert Lavenda, Emily Schultz
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; Published: 2009-02-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $41.55
Yanomamo -  Yanomamö (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) ImageYanomamo - Yanomamö (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
by Napoleon A. Chagnon
Harcourt Brace; Published: 1996-11-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $26.00
Price in other shops: $54.95
Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology (14th Edition) ImageConformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology (14th Edition)
by James Spradley, David W. McCurdy
Prentice Hall; Published: 2011-07-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $54.99
Price in other shops: $73.60
Book store. Illustrated catalog of books on different categories