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The forest people turnbull6/12/2023 ![]() The Mbuti view their forest as a sacred, peaceful place to live-they constantly refer to it with not only reverence but adoration. A wonderful film about Mbuti life in the Ituri Forest, made in 1990, was uploaded to YouTube in 2013.īeliefs that Foster Peacefulness. The Mbuti who have moved to resettlement camps near Goma fabricate goods for sale or hold day laboring jobs in the city. For the people who remain in the Ituri Forest, much of the year they engage in their traditional forest hunting and gathering, but part of the year they also live with nearby farming villagers for whom they provide labor in exchange for outside goods and garden vegetables. Mbuti woman with termite mushrooms: “These are the best mushrooms I’ve ever had” - Terese Hart (teresehart’s photostream on Flickr, Creative Commons license)Įconomy. ![]() ![]() Colin Turnbull, in his world famous book The Forest People (1961), described the net hunting Mbuti, who subsist in the heart of the Ituri, and particularly the families who lived in the Epulu area. About 30,000 Mbuti Pygmies used to live in the Ituri rainforest of northeastern Congo, though many have fled to safety in resettlement camps near the Congolese city of Goma to escape the incessant fighting by militias and armies in their forests. ![]()
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