We speak with Sinafasi Makelo, a representive of the Mbuti people with the organization Support Action for the Protection of the Rights of Minorities in Central Africa — DRC. The United Nations has ...

“We are thrilled to be recognized by the UN for this film,” said Tribal Trust founder and president, Barbara Savage. “The award helps to focus international attention on the plight of the Mbuti people ...

Edited film shot among the Mbuti of the Ituri forest, Belgian Congo (Zaire), and the Bandaka (Bantu) villagers with whom they maintain economic and ritual relations. Documentation focuses primarily on ...

They emerge from the stillness of the rain forest like a lost tribe of prehistoric warriors forgotten by time - a barefoot band of Mbuti Pygmies wielding iron-tipped spears. The men come first, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Bark cloths were historically beaten ...

Decades ago, the Mbuti typically sold about half the meat they captured; now they sell nearly every carcass, saving only the prized entrails and heads for themselves. The hunt, in essence, has ...

I try to expand my moral imagination by reading about societies that function well without violence. I thought I would share the latest with you. Colin Turnbull, acclaimed social anthropologist of the ...

Itombwe tropical forest holds a great biodiversity in flora and fauna, and it hosts livelihoods activities that local communities and indigenous peoples would like to see guaranteed by the National ...

In The Human Cycle, Colin Turnbull contrasts the lifecourse of the Mbuti with that of Westerners. The Mbuti are able to maintain a remarkably high level of social order without laws.The cooperation ...