The Forest People

Book Club Associates, London, 1974. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. 256 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Book Club Associates, London, 1974. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have moderate bumping and minor chips and/or tears. . Pages are lightly tanned. Retangular section has been removed from 1st end page.. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology. It remains a transporting account of an earthly paradise and of a legendary and fascinating people. Colin Turnbull (1924-94) was a British-born anthropologist specialising in the people of Africa and their music. With the publication of The Forest People, a scientifically rigorous but nonetheless openly admiring portrait of a people who live in apparent harmony with their natural environment, he became one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and '70s. A decade later, he published a controversial companion study, The Mountain People, which portrayed a society displaced from its land who had become ruthless and selfish. In his later years, he did much work on 'death row' in the USA and argued strongly against capital punishment. He was ordained in India as a full Buddhist monk by the Dalai Lama in 1992. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Anthropology; Inventory No: 21060081..