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    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) Pygmies of Congo. The most important god of the Bambuti pantheon...
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    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...
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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...
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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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  • mythology Baluba mythology Bushongo mythology Kongo mythology Lugbara mythology Mbuti mythology Kalenjin folklore Dinka mythology Kalenjin mythology Lotuko mythology...
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    Takeminakata, god of wind, hunting and warfare. Khonvoum, supreme god of the Mbuti people in central Africa; the "great hunter" Ah Tabai, Maya god of the hunt...
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  • Kango people (redirect from Mbuti-Sua)
    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...
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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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    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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    are compared: the highest such value found was at close to 46%, between Mbuti and Papuans. A genetic distance of 0.125 implies that kinship between unrelated...
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    was "hunter-gatherer, bushpeople", alongside yaka used for the western (Mbuti) pygmies (Bayaka). As the Twa developed into full-time hunter-gatherers...
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    Zulu Bushongo Dinka Dogon Efik Fon and Ewe Ik Lotuko Lozi Lugbara Maasai Mbuti Odinala San Serer Tumbuka Urhobo Waaqeffanna Yoruba Ifá Diasporic: Candomblé...
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    Central/Southern Africa) Malagasy religion (People of Madagascar) Mbuti religion (Mbuti of Congo and central Sudan) Odinani (Igbo of southeastern Nigeria)...
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    came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People (on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire) and The Mountain People (on the Ik people of Uganda),...
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    for flora, an important species is Mangongo, whose leaves are used by the Mbuti to build their homes. The Kilo-Moto gold mines are partly located in Ituri...
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  • First Congo War (1996–1997) Effacer le tableau (2002–2003), a genocide of Mbuti people during the Second Congo War List of massacres in the Democratic Republic...
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  • Lese language (redirect from Mbuti language)
    S2CID 158969184. Smith, Edwin W. (1938). A Tentative Grammar of the Efe or Mbuti language. Methodist Missionary Society in Africa & Bible Society. Vorbichler...
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    neighbouring Ubangian-speaking Baka and Bantu-speaking Aka (though not by the Mbuti, and this connection is not ancient) and the Rimba dialect of Punu which...
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    Leonardo da Vinci. Elephants have been the subject of religious beliefs. The Mbuti people of central Africa believe that the souls of their dead ancestors...
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    Akan Bantu Bushongo Kongo Lozi Zulu Dahomean Dinka Efik Hausa Lugbara Maasai Malagasy Mbuti Odinani San Serer Somali...
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    4:47 7. "Cengunmé" (by Mahi musicians of Benin)   2:11 8. "Alima Song" (by Mbuti of the Ituri Rainforest)   1:01 9. "Barnumbirr (Morning Star) and Moikoi...
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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...
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  • them and reveal the fence is electrified. Meanwhile, Debbie meets a local Mbuti boy named Boko, who is sent by his village elders to assist her. The two...
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    was the ancestral haplogroup of not only modern Pygmies like the Baka and Mbuti, but also Hadzabe from Tanzania, who often have been considered, in large...
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  • Bushongo Dinka Dogon Efik Gbe Hausa Nubia Lotuko Lozi Lugbara Luhya Maasai Mbuti Odinala (Igbo) San Serer Tumbuka Vodun Waaqeffanna (Oromo) Yoruba Doctrines...
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    Akan Bantu Bushongo Kongo Lozi Zulu Dahomean Dinka Efik Hausa Lugbara Maasai Malagasy Mbuti Odinani San Serer Somali...
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    deforestation, especially in Brazil. Central African rainforest is home of the Mbuti pygmies, one of the hunter-gatherer peoples living in equatorial rainforests...
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    Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a World Heritage Site. It is also the home of the Mbuti pygmies, one of the hunter-gatherer peoples living in equatorial rainforests...
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