The <strong>Forest People</strong> Colin M. Turnbulls bestselling classic work describes the authors experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies notas a... » 

The Forest People Colin M. Turnbulls bestselling classic work describes the authors experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies notas a clinical observer but as their friend learning their customs and sharingtheir daily life.Turnbull conveys the lives and feelings of the BaMbuti whose existence centerson their intense love for their forest world which in return for theiraffection and trust provides their every need. We witness their huntingparties and nomadic camps their love affairs and ancient ceremonies themolimo in which they praise the forest as provider protector and deitythe elima in which the young girls come of age and the nkumbicircumcision rites in which the villagers of the surrounding nonPygmy tribesattempt to impose their culture on the Pygmies whose forest home they dare notenter.The Forest People eloquently shows us a people who have found in the forestsomething that makes their life more than just living a life that with allits hardships and problems and tragedies is a wonderful thing of happiness andjoy. «