The bestselling, classic text on one anthropologist's incredible
experience living among the African Mbuti Pygmies, and what he learned
from their culture, customs, and love of life.
In this bestselling book, Colin Turnbull, a British cultural
anthropologist, details the incredible Mbuti pygmy people and their love
of the forest, and each other. Turnbull lived among the Mbuti people for
three years as an observer, not a researcher, so he offers a charming
and intimate firsthand account of the people and their culture, and
especially the individuals and their personalities. The Forest People
is a timeless work of academic and humanitarian significance, sure to
delight readers as they take a trip into a foreign culture and learn to
appreciate the joys of life through the eyes of the Mbuti people.