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	The Mbuti of Zaire
		The Mbuti population lives in the Ituri Forest, a tropical rainforest covering about 70,000 km2 of the north/northeast portion of Zaire.
		Mbuti reverence for the forest extends beyond being merely a source of supplies to viewing it as sacred, as a "deity" from which they ask for help and give thanks through their ritual ceremonies, including the molimo.
		The molimo is a major ritual in Mbuti life, inspired by their belief that the forest is the center of their existence, the source of all that is good in their lives.
	www.ucc.uconn.edu /~epsadm03/mbuti.html (1404 words)

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		The Mbuti as a whole are clearly distinct from these village neighbors both racially and culturally, and, Turnbull says, the economic differences between the three Mbuti groups mask a basic "structural unity" (Turnbull 1965B: 22-23).
		The Mbuti maintain relationships with surrounding village cultivators whose languages the Mbuti have adopted.
		Colin Turnbull (1962, 1965A, 1965B), is the principal English-speaking authority on the Mbuti.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7865 (859 words)

	Mbuti Information
		The Mbuti are one of several indigenous hunter-gatherer groups in the Congo region of Africa.
		The Mbuti are primarily hunter-gatherers, foraging for food in the forest.
		The Mbuti descent tend to be patrilineal and residences is patrilocal post-marital, but the system is rather loose.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Mbuti (1314 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mbuti
		The Mbuti are one of several indigenous hunter-gatherer groups in the Congo region of Africa.
		Mbuti reverence for the forest extends beyond being merely a source of supplies to viewing it as sacred, as a "deity" from which they ask for help and give thanks through their ritual ceremonies, including the molimo.
		The molimo is a major ritual in Mbuti life, inspired by their belief that the forest is the center of their existence, the source of all that is good in their lives.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mbuti (275 words)

	Cultural Survival
		Mbuti ease and independence in the forest is recognized as a manifestation of their spiritual unity with it, a unity the villagers cannot achieve in their more hierarchical, agriculturally-oriented lives.
		Mbuti participate at major ceremonies associated with the fecundity of gardens and clan, including coronation ceremonies of the mwami, the opening of new barazza (men's communal house) and the calling of the village eshumba (male ancestor cult).
		Mbuti continue to be recognized as forest specialists, but their skills are often used to their disadvantage.
	www.cs.org /publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=232 (2000 words)

	Perceptions of forests
		The Mbuti are bamiki bandura, “children of the forest”;, enveloped from birth in a rich symbolic tradition that stresses the supreme value of ndura, or “forestness”;.
		The Mbuti use painted barkcloths, prepared by men and painted by women, as ritual dress for festivals, celebrations and rites of passage, including wedding and funeral ceremonies and puberty initiations.
		The paintings are evidence of the Mbuti perception of the forest as the spiritual and symbolic core of their culture.
	www.fao.org /docrep/005/y9882e/y9882e09.htm (558 words)

	Detail Page
		The Mbuti are among several peoples whose small stature has led them to be referred to as Pygmies, a term that is no longer popular with anthropologists, who prefer to call them Mbuti.
		Relationships between Mbuti individuals and their respective villages are common, and family ties between the two are passed from generation to generation.
		One of the more unusual Mbuti customs is the practice of "sister exchange." In order to marry, a man must find a woman of his own clan to marry with a man of his prospective wife's clan.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=AFR0349 (595 words)

	Mbuti
		The Mbuti are bamiki bandura, “children of the forest”, enveloped from birth in a rich symbolic tradition that stresses the supreme value of ndura, or “forestness”.
		The Mbuti use painted barkcloths, prepared by men and painted by women, as ritual dress for festivals, celebrations and rites of passage, including wedding and funeral ceremonies and puberty initiations.
		The paintings are evidence of the Mbuti perception of the forest as the spiritual and symbolic core of their culture.
	www.the-tree.org.uk /Sacred%20Grove/Articles/Mbuti/mbuti.htm (643 words)

	The Mbuti of Zaire
		Mbuti reverence for the forest extends beyond being merely a source of supplies to viewing it as sacred, as a "deity" from which they ask for help and give thanks through their ritual ceremonies, including the molimo.
		Each new Mbuti camp site is close enough to the periphery of the forest to provide relatively easy access to the particular Bantu village with whom each Mbuti group has a political and economic relationship.
		The molimo is a major ritual in Mbuti life, inspired by their belief that the forest is the center of their existence, the source of all that is good in their lives.
	www.qvctc.commnet.edu /brian/saroviak/mbuti.html (1403 words)

	Foragers Bibliography
		The Mbuti tolerate the alien traders in camp because they are often a convenient source of food and other desired material goods; however, they do not share the traders' commercial motives.
		The Mbuti freely manipulate credit to their own advantage and they are often able to evade the traders' efforts at economic control.
		Mbuti material needs are changing and the antelope fauna (Cephalophinae) upon which commerical trade depends is being reduced in some areas.
	www.bushmeat.org /html/ra_foragers.htm (3754 words)

	AnthroNotes Fall 2000 (Grinker) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Mbuti child learns to love others not because love is imposed upon him, but because he has spent at least the first three years of his life, not with nannies, but in his mother's arms, or on her back, and in her bed, in a relationship of constant and selfless giving and receiving.
		Mbuti teenagers, he wrote, practice sex freely and yet have no unwanted pregnancies, while in the west sex is often seen as something impure and dirty and without spirituality.
		Turnbull loved seeing the Mbuti outsmart the villagers, proving to him that those in power are fooled by their own pretenses, and that the imaginary evolutionary schemes of western science were merely self-congratulatory illusions.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~anthro/courses/306/GrinkerTurnbull.html (3168 words)

	Cultural Survival
		The Mbuti are insulated somewhat from the initial stages of development by the fact that their subsistence is garnered from the forest either by direct consumption of forest products which they gather and hunt or by trading those products plus labor for cultivated foods.
		For example, should a Mbuti be fined by the villager chief (usually for fighting, stealing or adultery) his villager will pay; or should he fall sick, his villager will buy medicine and often feed and care for him; or should he have a run of unsuccessful hunting, his villager will often supply him with food.
		As the Mbuti turns to this broader market, his villager no longer views him as a reliable exchange partner worthy of credit and is consequently less likely to come to his aid in a time of crisis.
	www.cs.org /publications/CSQ/csq-article.cfm?id=61 (2685 words)

	Organic Parenting
		Mbuti women will, for example, decorate their bodies with special leaves and flowers to honor their body, the child within, and the event that has yet to take place.
		Mbuti see their life as beginning the moment they were wanted, for that is when they were conceived.
		The Mbuti follow the rhythms of the mother and child to such an extent that they claim that the mother and child jointly decide when visitors would be welcome.
	www.primalspirit.com /ps3_1lyn-piluso.htm (6524 words)

	Mbuti - Around the world
		The Mbuti live in villages that are categorised as bands.
		The Mbuti are an egalitarian society in which the band is the highest form of social organisation.
		Everything in the Mbuti life is centered on the forest because that is what sustain them and they believe it is a sacred place.
	jeremierita.canalblog.com /archives/2007/02/06/3911123.html (620 words)

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		Before the Mbuti would only kill what they needed for consumption, but with more people living alongside the road the Mbuti were demanded to bring more meat for trade and began to kill more animals than they had ever previously done.
		Though the Mbuti had remained largely untouched for many decades, the road was the first step to a string of changes that would take place within the Mbuti groups.(Onukaba) Belgian Colonialism- During the late 18th century, when not only were Westerners fighing for resources but for entire nations, Belguim gained control over Zaire.
		Mbuti pygmies and other groups in the forest are threatened by apparent attempts of rebel soldiers eating Mbuti to acquire their forest powers such as good vision and tracking skills.
	www.stolaf.edu /depts/cis/wp/steeged/papers/pygmies.doc (2253 words)

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		The Mbuti Tribe of the Ituri Forest of Zaire are one of the best know tribes averaging under 4' 6'' in height.
		The Mbuti are nomadic hunters and form groups of 10 to 25 separate families.
		Mbuti tribes have no chief or any specific person or persons to settle their disputes.
	www.angelfire.com /on2/thenet4fun/mbuti.html (278 words)

	The Musical Manifestations of Animal and/or Bird Symbolism in Suyá, Kaluli, Mbuti and Temiar Societies
		The importance of song is vividly expressed in Mbuti legends, and there is a very general, although specific consensus that song is not only ‘beautiful’, but also ‘good’ and ‘powerful’, because song ultimately presents the means of abating akami ‘noise’ (also meaning conflict) and restoring ekimi ‘silence’ or ‘peace’ in their forest environment.
		The molimo trumpet is considered as a sacred object of the molimo ceremony, and makata (tuned sticks, discarded after their use) belong to the tradition of the Bantu village nkumbi initiation ceremony, whereas the flute (end-blown reed or cane notched aerophone), lukembi (10-key lamellaphone or mbira) and musical bow have a secular recreational standing.
		The songs of the Mbuti pygmies are constructed around pentatonic and quasipentatonic melodic frameworks of notably descending contours that are given life with a harmonic idiosyncrasy based on fourths and fifths, multi-part vocalization, polyrhythmic aptitude and improvisational propagation.
	www.users.bigpond.com /apertout/Rainforest.htm (3409 words)

	MBUTI term papers, research papers on MBUTI, essays on MBUTI, Term Papers 2000, Term papers, 070223
		The Mbuti Pygmies: An Ethnographic Survey (1965) was originally written in 1956 as Turnbull's thesis at Oxford University.
		Though Turnbull had visited the Mbuti earlier, the 1957 stay was undertaken as intensive field research in which he studied the single Mbuti hunting band with whom he lived.
		The Mbuti see the male children as being well developed with their cooperation skills, but do not think the same of the girls.
	www.termpapers2000.com /lib/essay?A=type1&KEYW=mbuti (445 words)

	Mbuti Worksheet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The name Mbuti ("em-booty") refers to three groups of people who live in the Ituri Rain Forest of Zaire.
		Mbuti music and painting have a lot in common, such as breaks in the patterns and improvisation.
		Mbuti artists don't plan their paintings or their songs ahead of time; they improvise as they go along.
	www.bampfa.berkeley.edu /exhibits/mbuti/worksheet.html (859 words)

	Peaceful Societies
		The Mbuti view their forest as a sacred, peaceful place to live—they constantly refer to it with not only reverence but adoration.
		Mbuti women participate in the hunt, and the men gather mushrooms in the forest along with the women.
		A Mbuti mother develops a special lullaby that she starts singing to her baby while the infant is still in the womb.
	www.peacefulsocieties.org /Society/Mbuti.html (1066 words)

	WESTERN COMPLAINTS - New York Times
		In any case, Mbuti childhood is presented as a truly awesome experience of love, security and creative growth.
		These autobiographical reminiscences are introduced by the complaint that ''whereas the Mbuti can talk confidently of their life even in the womb and recite events that took place during those nine months as though they had witnessed them, my actual recollections go back no further than to when I was three years old.''
		Mbuti society is ''a model of mutuality''; ours is one of division and segmentation.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E6D71E39F933A25757C0A965948260 (642 words)

	WowEssays.com - African Culture
		It's easy to recognize that for the Mbuti the music embodies the heart of the forest, and for the Venda the relation to nature is the act of a mother giving birth.
		The Mbuti is primarily a forest dwelling group, relying on the forest for most of their subsistence.
		The Mbuti women usually do not participate when the molimo is present, but the music seems to break down any gender barriers as it was mentioned in class that the women, know what's going on.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/af4/seg136.shtml (1478 words)

	Congo, Democratic Republic: Mbuti forest peoples' survival threatened
		The total number of hunter-gatherer Mbuti 'Pygmies' who live in the Ituri tropical forest is not known, although it has been estimated at 30,000 occupying 50% of the 37,860 sq km of Mambasa.
		The forest, and therefore the Mbuti's food supply, is under increasing threat from the rapidly spreading commercial plantations of Ugandan timber companies and the increasing number of coltan mines (coltan is an important ingredient in the manufacturing of capacitors, which regulate voltage and store energy in mobile phones).
		Although relations between the Mbuti hunter-gatherers and the traditional Bila fisher-farmers (who practice shifting cultivation) are generally good and involve sustainable forest use, the forest has also been under increasing pressure from incoming gold panners.
	www.wrm.org.uy /bulletin/67/Congo2.html (478 words)

	Mbuti
		The Egyptians called the Mbuti the “pygmies” or the “people in the trees.” This was written around 2,500 B.C. Since the Mbuti have occupied the Ituri Rainforest for so long, they know the forest very well.
		The Mbuti refer to the forest as “mother” or “father.” After living in the forest, they have figured out how to utilize its gifts while keeping the antagonist in it as distant as possible.
		Since the Mbuti live within the rainforest, their contact with other cultures is limited.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/mbuti.html (551 words)

	Multimedia/In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull
		Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest Wav file of Track 25, Molimo, "Darkness is good"
		Note: Segments 1-4 are estimated to download in approximately 4 minutes with a 56K modem connection.
		Segment 4: QuickTime movie of film clip narrated by Turnbull of a Mbuti teaching a child what is to be expected during initiation.
	www.colinturnbull.com /moviepage.html (171 words)

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