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The forest people / Colin M. Turnbull.

By: Turnbull, Colin M
Material type: TextTextSeries: A Touchstone bookPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1968Copyright date: ©1961Edition: First Touchstone editionDescription: 295 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0671640992 (pbk.)Subject(s): Mbuti (African people) | Ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic)DDC classification: 306/.089963 LOC classification: DT650.B36 | T87 1987Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes index.Local Note: From the Glenmary Research Center Library.Differentiable Local Note:
Contents:
World of the forest -- Good death of Balekimito -- Making of Camp Lelo -- Song of the forest -- Crime of Cephu, the bad hunter -- Giver of the law -- Play world of the BaMbuti -- Molimo: the dance of death -- World of the village -- Elima: the dance of life -- Marriage of Kenge -- Village initiation and magic -- Forest horizons -- World beyond -- Dream world.

Includes index.

ch. 1. World of the forest -- ch. 2. Good death of Balekimito -- ch. 3. Making of Camp Lelo -- ch. 4. Song of the forest -- ch. 5. Crime of Cephu, the bad hunter -- ch. 6. Giver of the law -- ch. 7. Play world of the BaMbuti -- ch. 8. Molimo: the dance of death -- ch. 9. World of the village -- ch. 10. Elima: the dance of life -- ch. 11. Marriage of Kenge -- ch. 12. Village initiation and magic -- ch. 13. Forest horizons -- ch. 14. World beyond -- ch. 15. Dream world.

From the Glenmary Research Center Library.

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