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Briefly define the Three Images of the Forest People. Explain why one of them is a dangerous distortion? Which view is the least distorted?
 
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Who are the BaAka? Characterize the earlier way of life of the Forest People (prior to being confronted with external forces such as multinational timber and mining companies).
 
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Answer to Question 1

 --Primal Eden: a simple, unspoiled, and innocent utopia whose music-culture evokes cherished valuespeace, naturalness, humor, community, an idyllic paradise
 --Primitive Savage: primitive savagery, an earlier stage in evolution; a way of life associated with the Stone Age. Such a pejorative view is ethnocentric and dangerous, because it can become a rationalization for the exploitation and modernization of the primitive group by another group who feels superior.
 --Unique Culture in a Global Village: This view is the least distorted and recognizes the Forest People as nonliterate, nonindustrial, with an unspecialized division of labor and a cashless barter/subsistence economy, in a homogeneous society with small-scale, decentralized social institutions and egalitarian social relations.

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 The BaAka are one of several distinct ethnic groups who share certain physical, historical, cultural, and social features as well as adaptations to the natural world WOM citing Turnbull, 1983. Presently they are living in the forested areas of tropical central Africa (in the Central African Republiclocate this country on the map of Africa in WOM, p. 68.) These groups are referred to collectively as the Forest People (rather than by the ethnocentric, Western label, Pygmies, which refers to their smaller physical size).
 In earlier times the Forest People lived in small, close-knit groups of family and friends easily obtaining necessary food through cooperative hunting and gathering. As hunting bands with only portable material possessions, they would move in accordance with the availability of food. The social system was informal and flexible . . .



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again




 

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