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.
Answer to Question 2
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 . . .
Plant-transpired water vapour mist rising from a tropical rain forest.
Gurung people of Nepal
In the Tai Forest a female chimp demonstrates a skill once thought to be unique to humans. Here she
Creede, Colorado, circa 1890, a rough silver mining town that grew from 660 people in 1889 to over 1
The energy set-point view that is the basis of many people’s thinking about hunger and eating.
Government in America: People, Politics, and Policy, AP