Book
Wayward servants: the two worlds of the African Pygmies
The Natural History Press • Garden City, N.y. • Published In 1965 • Pages:
By: Turnbull, Colin M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
On the basis of an extensive and close association with a band of the Epulu net-hunters, Colin Turnbull examines the cultural factors contributing to the cohesiveness of the Mbuti bands and their independence of villager control. Turnbull rests the weight of his proof on examination of the puberty initiation and death rituals as practiced in the band. Turnbull concludes that the Mbuti Pygmies are quite self-reliant and have a value system which distinctly separates them fron the neighboring villagers.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tribe and nation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mbuti
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Adolph Hoehling ; John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951, 1957, 1958
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- NotesAdditional notes
- Colin M. Turnbull
- Includes bibliography.|Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65017265
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bambute