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Anthropologist Turnbull’s best-selling, nonfiction book, “The Forest People,” was originally published in 1961 and seeks to detail the daily lives of the BaMbuti people, an Indigenous Pygmy group of the Ituri Forest in the Belgian Congo. As a result of living with the BaMbuti people, Turnbull examines the group’s rich and storied culture that takes the forest as its mother, father, and God. 

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