The Forest People Author:Colin M. Turnbull The Forest People, Study of the BaMbuti Pygmies of the Congo, has become a classic work in the finest tradition of literate anthropology. Colin M. Turnbull is a young anthropologist - presently Assistand Curator of African Ethnology at the Am. Museum of Natural History -- who lived amount the BaMbuti for three years, not as a clinical observer f... more »rom the outside world, but as a friend, learning their customs and sharing their daily life.« less