" The Mbuti Pygmies" & "The Forest People" ( Colin Turnbull )

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" Colin M. Turnbull's two works on the Mbuti Pygmies represent two very different approaches to ethnography. The Mbuti Pygmies: An Ethnographic Survey (1965) was originally written in 1956 as Turnbull's thesis at Oxford University. This work was published in 1965 with a limited number of revisions. The thesis is a description of all the known ethnographic facts about the Pygmies of the Congo region. In the years 1957-1958, however, Turnbull had made an extended stay among the Mbuti. Though Turnbull had visited the Mbuti earlier, the 1957 stay was undertaken as intensive field research in which he studied the single Mbuti hunting band with whom he lived. An account of this field work was published in 1961 as The forest people. The Mbuti Pygmies (1965) surveys all the data accumulated by previous travelers and anthropologists and was a necessary preliminary to the field work.."

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