ABSTRACT
Reprinted from Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore, editors, Man the Hunter (Chicago: Aldine, 1968). Copyright © 1968 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. Colin Turnbull is Professor of Anthropology, Hofstra College. Prior to assuming that post, he was a Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History. He has done extensive field research in Africa; his publications include The Forest People: A Study of the Pygmies of the Congo; The Lonely African; and Wayward Servants: The Two Worlds of the African Pygmies.
