Observations of the BaMbuti Pygmies

The BaMbuti Pygmies were one of the most famous tribes in the African culture since they were under 4feet 6 inches tall in height . They lived in the Ituri Forest of the eastern Congo. Pygmies were also rear because the blood type differ so much from others. Bambuti pygmies were psychologically conditioned to their enviorment, and also had diffrent percetions on objects that the saw everyday.  The Pygmies are nomadic hunters and gather food for their own consumption, they also trade with thier neighbors for pot or pans which were not available in the forest. the were nomads since they moved every three weeks in order to gather food and had diffrent hunting techniques. it was intresting the way in which they married it was an important eent and was also called the "sister exchange" and were also amazing musicans. Colin Turnbull was an anthropologist who studied African societies and one of the most important tries he was interested in were the Bambuti pygmies and hunting societies thats why he decided to learn more about them. Turnbull studied the way in which they lived and their perspective . He reviled the IK and described the latter as lacking in any sense of altruism. Turnbull found out that eventhough bambuti lived in the forest the didnt know what mountains and hills were because they had never seeen thing from a perception far away. Colin observed a 22 year old boy called Keny and saw that he called thing that he had never seen like if they were witch craft because of their size. then keny understood and adapted to the enviorment understanding whhat things were. He had never seen this before since in his forest when you get up a tree the more you can see are 1OO feet below. Colins information was that perception is completly different for pygmies and that they adapt to eniviorments easily.

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