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. 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. 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. Most villages are set up to provide labor for plantations or local works such as roads and house buildi.The Forest People - Colin M. The men go off to work daily, rather than to hunt, and the women work in plantations rather than gathering fruits, berries and roots in the wild forest. There is non of the cheerful nighttime gossip heard from the hunters in the forest. Fires are brought inside at night to dispell mosquitos, and the doors are kept close, nobody sleeping in the open *Turnbull, 1961, 167-169). In the forest, the Pygmies are hunter/gatherers, building small camps, and moving on to follow the game. The forest Pygmy live a life much closer to nature than those in the village, and has a great respect for the forest which provides their every need.ġ. The village Pygmy can be seen to be very much under the influence of the Negro culture in the villages. It tells of the hunting rituals, and how they are respected by all, and punishment is meted out on one who disrespects these conventions. It looks at courtship and marriage ceremonies and rituals, and how brides are chosen in the villages and in the forests. The book looks at the system of rules and laws of the Pygmy, and how they punish different levels of crime in their society. It loojs at some of their customs, including the molimo festival, which celebrates the bounty of the forest the elima celebration, which celebrates a young girl's coming into womanhood and the nkumbi initiation of Pygmy boys into manhood, a practice carried out in the villages but not really a part of the forest culture, and only endured by Pygmies so they can gain acceptance by villagers.

It looks at their social structure, and how they function as a bulture. It describes the life of Pygmies living in villages and that of those living in the forest.

The Forest People by Colin Turnbull describes the life of the Pygmy as seen by Turnbull in time he spent living with them.

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