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Book chapter | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Food-gatherers: the Mbuti pygmies |
Author: | Mair, L. |
Book title: | African societies |
Year: | 1974 |
Pages: | 14-24 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
Subject: | Pygmies |
Abstract: | This chapter is based on: 'Wayward Servants' by Colin Turnbull (1965). The Mbuti live in the Ituri forest on the borders of Zaïre and Uganda. Their hunting technology, social control, religion and their relations with the village at the edge of the forest are discussed. |