Forest of the Pygmies (Spanish: El Bosque de los Pigmeos) is a 2004 novel by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende and a sequel to City of the Beasts and Kingdom...
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The African Pygmies (or Congo Pygmies, variously also Central African foragers, "African rainforest hunter-gatherers" (RHG) or "Forest People of Central...
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The pygmy hippopotamus or pygmy hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis) is a small hippopotamid which is native to the forests and swamps of West Africa, primarily...
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Bambenga, Bambuti and Batwa). The terms "Asiatic Pygmies" and "Oceanic pygmies" have been used to describe the Negrito populations of Southeast Asia and Australo-Melanesian...
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Dwarf forest, elfin forest, or pygmy forest is an uncommon ecosystem featuring miniature trees, inhabited by small species of fauna such as rodents and...
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Pygmy - includes animals with names of form "[Adjective] pygmy [noun]" Pygmy forest, forest which only contains miniature trees Forest of the Pygmies...
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Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon) (redirect from Baka pygmies)
Baka - People of the Forest (1988) Sarno, Louis, (1996) Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the Babenzélé Pygmies, Ellipsis Arts Baka Pygmies culture, music...
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Pygmy music refers to the sub-Saharan African music traditions of the Central African foragers (or "Pygmies"), predominantly in the Congo, the Central...
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Mbuti mythology (redirect from Pygmy mythology)
Mbuti Pygmies", page 120, by Kevin Duffy African Pygmies Culture and mythology of Pygmies, with photos and ethnographic notes Religions and cultures of moon...
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The Forest People (1961) is Colin Turnbull's ethnographic study of the Mbuti pygmies of the Uturi Forest in then-Belgian Congo. In this book, the British-American...
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Mbuti people (redirect from Mbuti pygmies)
The Forest People. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc. Mukenge 2002, p. 85. Ichikawa, Mitsuo (March 1987). "Food Restrictions of the Mbuti Pygmies, Eastern...
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It is the sequel to City of the Beasts and the prequel to Forest of the Pygmies. The plot is set in the Forbidden Kingdom, a fictional remote Himalayan...
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Paula Frías Allende (category Chilean people of Basque descent)
humanitarian who was the daughter of Chilean-American author Isabel Allende. Her grandfather was first cousin to Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970...
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Eagle and Jaguar meet again in the sequels, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, and Forest of the Pygmies. Children's literature portal Stein, Eliot (13 January...
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conditions. African forest elephants are hunted by various hunter-gatherer groups in the Congo basin, including by Mbuti pygmies, among others. It is...
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The term Congo Pygmies (African Pygmies) refers to "forest people" who have, or recently had, a hunter-gatherer economy and a simple, non-hierarchical...
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The cloud-forest pygmy owl or cloudforest pygmy owl (Glaucidium nubicola) is a short, muscular, small-sized species of owl found throughout the Andes...
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Aka people (redirect from Aka pygmies)
Republic. Unlike the Mbuti pygmies of the eastern Congo (who speak only the language of the tribes with whom they are affiliated), the Aka speak their own language...
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Efé people (redirect from Efe pygmies)
African Pygmies Culture, music and rites Pygmy Fund: Dr Jean-Pierre Hallet Archived 2007-10-16 at the Wayback Machine The Pygmies of the Ituri Forest (Sound...
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Savanes, Guinean or Guinean Dwarf, Forest Goat and Pygmy.: 416 : 52 The West African Dwarf is a traditional breed of West and Central Africa. Its dwarf...
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Great Lakes Twa (category African Pygmies)
mountain forests living in association with agricultural villages, much as other pygmy peoples do. When the Hutu, a Bantu-speaking people, arrived in the region...
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Twa (category African Pygmies)
forager tribes. These cultural groups were formerly called Pygmies by European writers, but the term is no longer preferred based on its cultural and geographic...
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after the sal forests where the pygmy hog was found. Although the decision was not unanimous, the pygmy hog was later determined to be a member of the genus...
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Isabel Allende (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
bestias Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (2004) El reino del dragón de oro Zorro (2005) El Zorro: Comienza la leyenda Forest of the Pygmies (2005) El bosque...
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Jean-Pierre Hallet (redirect from The Pygmy Fund)
work with the Efé (Bambuti) pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest. He wrote the 1964 autobiographical book, Congo Kitabu, the 1973 ethnologic book Pygmy Kitabu...
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Falconidae is a family of diurnal birds of prey and includes caracaras, laughing falcon, forest falcons, falconets, pygmy falcons, falcons and kestrels...
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Colin Turnbull (category British emigrants to the United States)
attention with the popular books The Forest People (on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire) and The Mountain People (on the Ik people of Uganda), and one of the first anthropologists...
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Cradick (formerly of the group Outback) travelled to south-east Cameroon to live with the Baka tribe (hunter-gatherer Pygmies) in the rainforest and record...
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three samples taken from the albums “Cameroon : Baka Pygmy Music” (1977) and “Polyphony of Deep Rain Forest - The Music of the Pygmy in Ituri” (1986, CD Ethnic...
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720 ft) in the west of the island. It frequents conifer forest and other open forest types, and is often encountered on the forest edge. The pygmy bushtit...
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