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"The Pygmies Were Our Compass": Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E.(Book review)
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September 22, 2005|
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"The Pygmies Were Our Compass": Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 C.E. By Kairn A. Klieman. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xxxiv, 253. $26.00.)
Westerners commonly think of Pygmies only as placeholders on an ahistorical evolutionary continuum. Somewhat like people in the ancient and medieval world, who imagined semihuman creatures standing between animal life and civilization, modern observers often assume Pygmies are Stone Age relics who exist as social fossils in the deep recesses of the equatorial forests. ...
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