Entrée principale:

Turnbull, Colin M., author.

Titre et auteur:

The forest people / Colin M. Turnbull.

Édition:

First Touchstone edition.

Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [1968]
©1961

Description:

295 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
"A Touchstone book."
Includes index.
ch. 1. World of the forest -- ch. 2. Good death of Balekimito -- ch. 3. Making of Camp Lelo -- ch. 4. Song of the forest -- ch. 5. Crime of Cephu, the bad hunter -- ch. 6. Giver of the law -- ch. 7. Play world of the BaMbuti -- ch. 8. Molimo: the dance of death -- ch. 9. World of the village -- ch. 10. Elima: the dance of life -- ch. 11. Marriage of Kenge -- ch. 12. Village initiation and magic -- ch. 13. Forest horizons -- ch. 14. World beyond -- ch. 15. Dream world.

Résumé:

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 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.

Ressources:
Sample text
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0671640992 (pbk.)
9780671640996 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Mbuti (African people)
Ethnology Congo (Democratic Republic)
Mbuti (Peuple d'Afrique)
Ethnologie Congo (République démocratique)
Ethnology
Congo (Democratic Republic)

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque photo collection 277832
Cote: PHCON2002:0016:093:028
Statut: Disponible