The Forest People: Africa's Pygmy Tribes Along the Congo River - their Hunter-Gatherer Culture, Village Customs and Bond with Nature

Had to read this for a class but enjoyed it and going to reread it. It romanticizes in my perception forest lifestyle: seemed to me that a lot of negative parts were not mentioned. It was like reading a fiction not an ethnography.

Look around this book describes a culture similar to what we are becoming!His other book gives hints as too what we could be!

The writer was one of the good ones in his field .

I first discovered this book when I was a teenager. It is just as fascinating now as it was then. It provides an illuminating insight into a culture that successfully lives in harmony with the environment as well as harmony within the tribe itself. It also taught me that it was indeed possible to raise children into successful adults while showing them truly unconditional love, being permissive by typical US standards, and to uphold rules without being punitive about it or employing techniques so rampant in the US such as shame, disappointment, etc. (all of which I classify as punitive techniques and I didn't want to raise my kids that way).

Read this in college some 40 years ago. Awesome book.