Spatial Mobility and Access to Resources among the African Pygmies

• Main Author: Bahuchet, Serge
• Other Authors: Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie (EAE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Michael J. Casimir, Aparna Rao
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 1991
• Subjects: [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology; Baka; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00261573; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00261573/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00261573/file/SpatialMobility.pdf

First paragraph of Introduction : African Pygmies have occupied a prominent place in the debate about mobility and territoriality among hunters and gatherers, being one of the two examples used by Tiirnbull to define the notion of flux (1968). It is well known by now that arnong hunting and gatherin...