Colin M. Turnbull

A study of the Mbuti pygmy hunter/gatherers of Zaire, with historical background on the Huri Forest, suggested correlatives between different forms of social organization and the environment, and details of the changes brought about by the Zimba revolution and independence.

In The Mountain People , Colin M. Turnbull describes the dehumanization of the Ik, African tribesmen who in less than three generations have deteriorated from being once-prosperous hunters to scattered bands of hostile, starving people whose only goal is individual survival.Sad, disturbing, and eloquently written, The Mountain People is a moving meditation on human nature, our capacity

The Forest People—Colin M. 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. Turnbull conveys the lives and feelings of the BaMbuti whose existence centers on their intense love for their forest world, which, in return

A noted and influential anthropologist surveys a broad spectrum of human societies to delineate the diversity and cultural richness surrounding passage through the stages of life in primitive cultures

Biographical sketches of modern Africans from varied walks of life illustrate the individual and societal conflicts of a continent in the process of transition between two cultures

1966. First Edition Thus. 390 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Pa

( Penguin 1976, Paperback. ) In this fascinating work of cross-cultural anthropology, Turnball examines the wide variety of African human experience.

A timely introduction to the basic tribal cultures of Africa permits Western students a glimpse of this vast and intriguing continent. The author, curator of American Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, has lived among these tribes and his writing reflects this firsthand knowledge. Beginning with the hunters,- the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert and the BaMbuti Pygmies

First Nations, the Inuit, and the Métis—these three groups are all Indigenous people. This book introduces students to Indigenous Peoples past and present. Their cultures, traditions, art, and interactions with Europeans as they arrived in what is now Canada. Selections include informational text along with follow - up questions and or activities. This versatile resource is the ideal supplement to

The author examines African culture and religion as represented in four very different tribes. Illustrated with black and white photos.