This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique insights into their complex social relations and ethnic identities. By showing how political organization is structured by ethnic and gender relations in the Lese house, Grinker challenges previous views of the Lese and Efe and other farmer-forager societies, as well as the conventional anthropological boundary between domestic and political contexts.
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"Theoretically, "Houses in the Rainforest is a very sophisticated and a very important book."--"International Journal of African Historical Studies
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"Roy Richard Grinker, writing about the relationship between Pygmies and their farmer counterparts, breaks new ground in the theory of social institutions and ethnicity."--Jan Vansina, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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The people who call themselves the Lese have had a turbulent history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
trapping wire, same phratry, witchcraft substance, palm oil trees, supernatural malevolence, cultivated foods, lineage theory, bark powder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lese of Malembi, Belgian Congo, Jan Vansina, Colin Turnbull, Mount Menda, Congo Free State, Louis Dumont, South Africa, The Forest People, United States, Wayward Servants New!
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The people who call themselves the Lese have had a turbulent history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
trapping wire, same phratry, witchcraft substance, palm oil trees, supernatural malevolence, cultivated foods, lineage theory, bark powder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lese of Malembi, Belgian Congo, Jan Vansina, Colin Turnbull, Mount Menda, Congo Free State, Louis Dumont, South Africa, The Forest People, United States, Wayward Servants New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Politics and History in Band Societies (Msh) by Richard Lee in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Forest People by Colin Turnbull on page 5, page 6, and Back Matter
- The Human Cycle by Colin M. Turnbull on page 6, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- History of Central Africa: v. 1 [Paperback by Birmingham in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- RL E: Anthropology and Ethnography: Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa (Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology and Ethnography) by John Middleton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (Global Perspectives) by Roy Richard Grinker on page 572
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