4 Results for : mbuti
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Mbay Kpiekpi:De l'intégration de peuple
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2016, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: De l'intégration de peuple autochtone Pygmée 'Mbuti' en RD Congo, Titelzusatz: Analyse des actions des acteurs dans le territoire de Wamba, Autor: Mbay Kpiekpi, Claude, Verlag: Editions universitaires europeennes EUE, Sprache: Französisch, Rubrik: Politikwissenschaft, Seiten: 328, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 505 gr, Verkäufer: averdo- Shop: averdo
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Civilizations of Africa: The History and Culture of the Mbuti (Pygmy) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min
Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Mbuti Includes ancient descriptions of pygmies and theories about their evolution. "[T]heir eyes had an untameable wildness about them that struck me as very remarkable." (French-American explorer Paul du Chaillu, 1867) The indigenous Africans known as pygmies have interested outsiders for thousands of years. In the 2200s BC, the Egyptian pharaoh Pepi II referred to one as a "dancing dwarf of the god from the land of spirits", and the Ancient Greeks were also familiar with them. Homer makes mention of pygmies in The Iliad, and Herodotus recounted the experiences of a Persian explorer who encountered "dwarfish people, who used clothing made from the palm tree", on the western coast of Africa. In fact the term pygmy comes from the Greek word for "dwarfish". Not surprisingly, foreigners' interest in pygmies has never waned. When medieval Europeans first traveled to Africa and parts of Asia, many of them were stunned when they encountered people who were considerably smaller than the average height. Perhaps the most famous account comes from the legendary Marco Polo, who was so confused about the people known as pygmies that he refused to believe they were actually human. In his famous account, Marco Polo wrote about seeing some of them in Indonesia, "I may tell you moreover that when people bring home pygmies which they allege to come from India, 'tis all a lie and a cheat...for nowhere in India nor anywhere else in the world were there ever men seen so small as these pretended pygmies." Marco Polo believed that the pygmies were actually monkeys that people manipulated and shaved to resemble smaller people. Today, of course, anthropologists know a lot more about the pygmies, a collective of indigenous groups in Africa who are still defined by the fact that they have an average height of less than five feet tall. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary D. MacFadden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038640/bk_acx0_038640_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Snakewoman of Little Egypt: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 611min
Audie Award, Literary Fiction, 2011On the morning of his 40th birthday, anthropology professor Jackson Jones contemplates his future: Should he go back to Africa, where he did his fieldwork, and live with the Mbuti, or should he marry and settle down in the Midwest, where he now teaches? On the morning of her release from prison, Sunny, who grew up in a snake-handling church in the Little Egypt region of Southern Illinois, rents a garage apartment from Jackson. She's been serving a five-year sentence for shooting, but not killing, her husband, the pastor of the Church of the Burning Bush with Signs Following, after he forced her at gunpoint to put her arm in a box of rattlesnakes. Sunny and Jackson become lovers, but they're pulled in different directions. Sunny, drawn to science and eager to put her snake-handling past behind her, enrolls at the university. Jackson, however, takes a professional interest in the religious ecstasy exhibited by the snake handlers. Push comes to shove in a novel packed with wit, substance, and emotional depth. Snakewoman of Little Egypt delivers Robert Hellenga at the top of his form. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Coleen Marlo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001605/bk_tant_001605_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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