| Content of the new Baka Pygmies site (English and Italian versions): |
| INTRO
Introduction about Baka Pygmies
Pygmy camps and huts in the rainforest
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| DAILY ACTIVITIES
Pygmy hunters, hunting weapons and animals hunted by Baka Pygmies
Food gathering in the rainforest (yam, fruit, mushrooms...)
Fishing in the forest streams
Food preparation (wild game cooking, palm oil and manioc preparation...)
Material culture (making of panniers, mattings, baskets...)
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| MUSIC and RITUALS
Baka Pygmies music and musical instruments
Traditional dances of Baka Pygmies Baka Pygmies rite of initiation to the Spirit of the Forest |
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| PORTRAITS
Baka Pygmy children Baka Pygmy women Baka Pygmy men |
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| ENVIRONMENT
African rainforest: nature and landscapes of the Baka Pygmies forest Rivers and lakes of the rainforest |
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| RAINFOREST ANIMALS
Mammals (primates, antelopes, buffalos, leopards...)
Reptiles (crocodiles, lizards and snakes), birds, insects...
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| FIELDWORK in AFRICA
Becaming a member of a Baka Pygmy clan
Other African Pygmies (Bagyeli Pygmies, Bedzan Pygmies, Aka Pygmies...)
Bamiléké, Bamoun, Tikar...
Bafut, Bali, Bamenda...
Other ethnic groups from Central Africa
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| Publications and Works in progress agout Pygmies
Baka Pygmies of Cameroon (monographical essay)
The musical instruments of Baka Pygmies (ethnomusicological essay)
Pygmies of the Cameroonian rainforest (photographic book)
The Spirit of the Forest (ethnographic novel)
Baka Pygmy Music (2 audio CD - Ethnic music)
Baka Pygmies of Cameroon - Culture and Music (CD-Rom)
People of the Forest - Baka Pygmies (DVD - Ethnographic documentary)
African Pygmies (photographic exposition)
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The new website about Baka Pygmies, designed and maintained by the Italian
anthropologist Mauro Campagnoli, contains over one hundred photos
about the life and the traditional activities of this Pygmy group, and some
ethnographic descriptions serving as introduction to the Baka Pygmy culture.
Photos are added periodically after every new research expedition.
A special thank goes to the Baka Pygmies who make it possible to the author
to live in the rainforest and to do his anthropological fieldwork in their camps. |
