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pygmy originally (in late Middle English) denoting a mythological race of small people; in later use, a member of certain peoples of very short stature in equatorial Africa and parts of SE Asia. The word comes via Latin from Greek
pugmaios ‘dwarf’, from
pugmē ‘the length measured from elbow to knuckles’.
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PYGMIES OF WESTERN CENTRAL AFRICA SHARE RECENT COMMON ANCESTORS
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 2/6/2009; 687 words
; ...constraints imposed on pygmies as non-pygmy agriculturalist populations...Western Central African Pygmies and evidence for variable...intermarriage between pygmy and non-pygmy groups...gene flow from non-pygmies into various pygmy populations may have...
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Pygmy envoy uses humor to fight prejudice
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Bokungu, a pro-Pygmy activist who traveled with the Pygmies from Kinshasa...There are numerous Pygmy societies - Lonoa...Pambo are Batwa Pygmies - in about a dozen...estimates put the Pygmy population between...socialize with Pygmies, or to pay them...
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Pygmies in Congo Condemned to Life on the Outside; Descendants of Central Africa's Earliest Inhabitants Face Intense Prejudice and Lack Political Power
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/24/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...civilization." Pygmies moved deeper and...a traditional Pygmy chief, was covered...to capture some Pygmy children to be...Seko encouraged Pygmies to come out of...Hundreds of our Pygmy brothers died." Many Pygmies remember the lesson...
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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)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...linguistics to reconstruct Pygmy history after c. 5000 BCE, when she says the Pygmies began pursuing their...prior settler, whether Pygmy or Bantu. Although Klieman...claims all Batwa were Pygmies, her book's title...that her portrait of the Pygmy past is a series of hypotheses...
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Pygmy music has its hero in Louis Sarno.(Originated from Orange County Register)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 1/15/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the term is the word Pygmies use to label themselves...specifically about the Pygmies' music. Built around...scale, the distinctive Pygmy vocals have even sort...and prejudices of non-Pygmy African people...working against (the Pygmies). The area they're...
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Congo's Pygmies Allege Cannibalism Crimes
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...UNITED NATIONS Pygmy activists from Congo...slaughtering and eating Pygmies during fighting in...cannibalism against the Pygmies, she said. The...sexually assault Pygmy women, and sexually...are available. The Pygmy people of the Congo...situation of the Pygmies has grown more ...
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Congo's Pygmies accuse rebels and army of cannibalism; demand U.N. genocide tribunal
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...UNITED NATIONS Pygmy activists from Congo...slaughtering and eating Pygmies during fighting in...cannibalism against the Pygmies, she said. The...sexually assault Pygmy women, and sexually...are available. The Pygmy people of the Congo...situation of the Pygmies has grown more ...
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Africa's Pygmies Face Logging Dilemma
News Wire article from: AP Online; 2/15/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...schooling, and want to save Pygmy culture. But the Pygmies say each tree felled means...although only two are Pygmies, according to Geffroy...is trying to help protect Pygmy culture, he said. The Pygmies have remarkable artistic...
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ENDANGERED PYGMY RABBITS RETURN HOME
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...extinction, nearly two-dozen endangered pygmy rabbits are headed back to their native...habitat in north-central Washington. The pygmy rabbits scheduled for release back into...Eatonville. Weather permitting, about 23 pygmy rabbits will be released on a state wildlife...
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Pleading the Pygmy cause in the U.S. Spokesman describes 'exclusion and contempt' in Congo
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Bokungu, a pro-Pygmy activist who traveled with the Pygmies from Kinshasa...There are numerous Pygmy societies - Lonoa...Pambo are Batwa Pygmies - in about a dozen...estimates put the Pygmy population between...socialize with Pygmies, or to pay them...
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Pygmy
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...Asia. ∎ ( pygmy ) chiefly derog. a very small...thing. ∎ ( pygmy ) an insignificant person, esp...relating to, or denoting the Pygmies: centuries-old Pygmy chants from central Africa...
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pygmy gliders
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
pygmy gliders See ACROBATIDAE .
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pygmy hippopotamus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
pygmy hippopotamus ( Choeropsis liberiensis ) See HIPPOPOTAMIDAE .
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pygmy locusts
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
pygmy locusts See TETRIGIDAE .
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pygmy mole crickets
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
pygmy mole crickets See TRIDACTYLIDAE .
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