Colin Turnbull an anthropologist, rise in a wealthy English family which discover his fulfilment in life; which were the Pygmies. Turnbull then wrote a book called “The Forest People”, which Turnbull spent three years studying about the Mbuti Pygmies; who lives in the Ituri rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In “The forest people”, Turnbull display the world of the Pygmy tribe, its environment, and how pygmies adopt to its surrounding in order to survive its everyday life. The Ituri Forest located at the middle of the map of Africa, at the corner of the Belgian Congo. A place where outsiders feel eternal and depressing but to the people who are in the area, they described it as cool, restful, shady world with life everywhere.
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It shows that the word “walk” to the pygmy means to “run swiftly and silently, without slipping, tripping or falling” (Turnbull 79), which they depend his ability to walk for food and run while be chase by a buffalo or creep. Normally the forest is said to be good to children, but why illness or bad hunting or death happens? It turns out that in the morning the forest goes well due to the pygmies but at night, when everyone goes to sleep things goes wrong because none of the pygmies are awake to stop it from going wrong; which causes “army ants to invade the camp, leopards may come in to steal a hunting dog or even a child” (Turnbull 92). When things go wrong like illness, bad hunting, and death, it means that the forest is asleep; which causes no one to protect the pygmies. In that case the pygmies will sing to wake up the forest. when things go well again the pygmies will also sing to share their happiness. The pygmies state that “The forest us a father and mother to us” This show how important the forest is to the pygmies, which they viewed the forest like a family to …show more content…
Men and women circle around each other and sing the hunting song, which they imagine the animals they hope to catch for the day. But sometimes this was hard for the man in the camp, due to the lack of sleep from the molimo festival at night. During the hunt in the day time; men, women and children all have to work together in order to be successful. The “Fire of the Hunt”, one of the strategy for hunting. Which “involves the lighting of a fire at the base of a tree a short distance from the camp” (TurnBull 97). In the forest there a lot of freedom but some time can go wrong because of all the freedom. In some case mentioning the name of a dead person is a crime, which trigger others emotion. But the Pygmies have their own way of dealing with conflict, and crimes within their culture. When crimes and conflict are spotted, the Pygmies usually try to keep everyone to relaxed and maintain a cheerful surrounding. Because they believe that conflict never fits in their way of living. Dependency is a major role in the forest, in which they have to depend on each other for living, because of this reason many Pygmies handle conflict in a carefree manner. The material of the clothing the pygmies wear is very simple and useful like their culture. Which they create their own dye, belts, and decorate their clothing and take good care of it. The point of a belt is to hold things while hunting which allows their hand to be freely to
It shows that the word “walk” to the pygmy means to “run swiftly and silently, without slipping, tripping or falling” (Turnbull 79), which they depend his ability to walk for food and run while be chase by a buffalo or creep. Normally the forest is said to be good to children, but why illness or bad hunting or death happens? It turns out that in the morning the forest goes well due to the pygmies but at night, when everyone goes to sleep things goes wrong because none of the pygmies are awake to stop it from going wrong; which causes “army ants to invade the camp, leopards may come in to steal a hunting dog or even a child” (Turnbull 92). When things go wrong like illness, bad hunting, and death, it means that the forest is asleep; which causes no one to protect the pygmies. In that case the pygmies will sing to wake up the forest. when things go well again the pygmies will also sing to share their happiness. The pygmies state that “The forest us a father and mother to us” This show how important the forest is to the pygmies, which they viewed the forest like a family to …show more content…
Men and women circle around each other and sing the hunting song, which they imagine the animals they hope to catch for the day. But sometimes this was hard for the man in the camp, due to the lack of sleep from the molimo festival at night. During the hunt in the day time; men, women and children all have to work together in order to be successful. The “Fire of the Hunt”, one of the strategy for hunting. Which “involves the lighting of a fire at the base of a tree a short distance from the camp” (TurnBull 97). In the forest there a lot of freedom but some time can go wrong because of all the freedom. In some case mentioning the name of a dead person is a crime, which trigger others emotion. But the Pygmies have their own way of dealing with conflict, and crimes within their culture. When crimes and conflict are spotted, the Pygmies usually try to keep everyone to relaxed and maintain a cheerful surrounding. Because they believe that conflict never fits in their way of living. Dependency is a major role in the forest, in which they have to depend on each other for living, because of this reason many Pygmies handle conflict in a carefree manner. The material of the clothing the pygmies wear is very simple and useful like their culture. Which they create their own dye, belts, and decorate their clothing and take good care of it. The point of a belt is to hold things while hunting which allows their hand to be freely to