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Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa
This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique insights into their complex social relations and ethnic identities. By showing how political organization is structured by ethnic and gender relations in the Lese house, Grinker challenges previous views of the Lese and Efe and other farmer-forager societies, as well as the conventional anthropological boundary between domestic and political contexts.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: Aug 4th, 1994
- Pages: 244
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.92in - 6.05in - 0.61in - 0.73lb
- EAN: 9780520089754
- Categories: • Anthropology - Cultural & Social• Africa - General• Customs & Traditions
About the Author
Roy Richard Grinker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University.
Praise for this book
"Theoretically, "Houses in the Rainforest is a very sophisticated and a very important book."--"International Journal of African Historical Studies