- The
Mbuti people, or Bambuti, are one of
several indigenous pygmy groups in the
Congo region of Africa.
Their languages are
Central Sudanic languages...
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Mbuti (Bambuti)
mythology is the
mythology of the
African Mbuti (also
known as Bambuti) The most
important god of the
Bambuti pantheon is
Khonvoum (also...
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Republic of the Congo,
Central African Republic), the
eastern Bambuti, or
Mbuti, of the
Congo basin (DRC) the
central and
southern Batwa, or Twa (Rwanda...
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Central African Republic and Cameroon.
Pygmy groups include the Bayaka, the
Mbuti, and the Batwa.
Music is an
important part of
Pygmy life, and
casual performances...
- Ota
Benga (c. 1883 –
March 20, 1916) was a
Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man,
known for
being featured in an
exhibit at the 1904
Louisiana Purchase Exposition in...
- The
Kango (Bakango), also
known as the
Batchua and
Mbuti-Sua, are an
Mbuti pygmy people of the
Ituri forest. They
speak a
Bantu language, Bila, apparently...
- came to
public attention with the po****r
books The
Forest People (on the
Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire) and The
Mountain People (on the Ik
people of Uganda),...
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Ichikawa observed the
hunting of
elephants by
Mbuti pygmies in
fieldwork during the 1970s and 1980s, when the
Mbuti used
spears tipped with
metal points (though...
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prefer to be
identified by
their ethnicity, such as the Aka (Mbenga), Baka,
Mbuti, and Twa. The term Bayaka, the
plural form of the Aka/Yaka, is sometimes...
- The
Forest People (1961) is
Colin Turnbull's
ethnographic study of the
Mbuti pygmies of the
Ituri Forest in what was then the
Belgian Congo. In this book...
