Mbuti or Bambuti are one of several Indigenous peoples of Africa indigenous Pygmies pygmy groups in the Congo Basin Congo region of Africa . Their language belongs to the Central Sudanic languages Central Sudanic subgroup of the Nilo Saharan phylum. ethnic group group Mbuti poptime 30,000 40,000 popplace Democratic Republic of the Congo rels Bambuti mythology langs Balese , Bira ethnic group Bira , Mangbetu related Pygmies , Batwa , Bushmen Citation needed date August 2007 Overview The Bambuti are pygmy hunter gatherer s, and are one of the oldest indigenous people of the Congo region of Africa. The Bambuti are composed of bands which are relatively small in size, ranging from 15 to 60 people. The Bambuti population totals about 30,000 to 40,000 people. There are four distinct culture s within the Bambuti. These are the Ef , who speak the language of the neighboring Bantu tribe the Balese or Mamvu the Sua, who speak the language of the neighboring Budu BaBudu the Mbuti, who speak the language of the neighboring Bila BaBila and a small subgroup of the Aka Pygmy tribe Aka who speak the language ... Congo basin thousands of years ago . The term BaMbuti Mbuti is therefore confusing, as it has ... to a people of the tree s that could have been the Mbuti. ref term4 Environment File R gion Ituri R publique .... In 2003, Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti Pygmies, told the UN Forum on Indigenous Issues ... term29 cite book author Ichikawa, Mitsuo title Food Restrictions of the Mbuti Pygmies year 1987 publisher ... search label Congo 3A 20The 20Forest 20People Mbuti Net Hunters of the Ituri Forest, story ... mbuti.html The Mbuti of Zaire , uconn.edu http www.pygmies.org African Pygmies Hunter Gatherers of Central ..., July 2004 http foragers.wikidot.com mbuti More information about the Mbuti on a site that is devoted ... of Central Africa Category African Pygmies Category Hunter gatherers es Mbuti nl Mbuti pl Mbuti sv Mbuti ... more details
Infobox Language name Kango familycolor Niger Congo states Democratic Republic of the Congo region Ituri forest speakers 2,000 1998 fam2 Atlantic Congo languages Atlantic Congo fam3 Benue Congo languages Benue Congo fam4 Bantoid languages Bantoid fam5 Southern Bantoid languages Southern fam6 Bantu languages Bantu fam7 Guthrie classification of Bantu languages Zone D Zone D fam8 Lega Holoholo D.20 iso3 kzy Kango is a Bantu language spoken by the Mbuti Pygmies called Bakango . The other Mbuti speak Central Sudanic languages . Although the Bakango currently live among the Bali language Bali , their language is closer to the related Komo language Bantu Komo , almost close enough to be considered a dialect. The Bakango are also called Ba Tchua or Dibatchua . This may be the same as the Wochua described in the 19th century. Category Bantu languages Category African Pygmies ... more details
Context date October 2009 The Wochua were are a pygmy people of Africa , living in the forests of the Mabode district of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , south of the Welle . They were first described in the Western world in 1880 1883 by Dr. W. Junker. They may be the same as the Kango language Kango Mbuti , who are called Batchua . References 1911 Category Ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo DRCongo stub Africa ethno group stub ... more details
Infobox Language speakers 20,000 1991 name Efe region Ituri forest state Democratic Republic of Congo Congo DRC familycolor Nilo Saharan fam2 Central Sudanic fam3 Eastern fam4 Mangbutu Efe languages Mangbutu Efe iso3 efe Efe is a Central Sudanic languages Central Sudanic language spoken by the Mbuti Pygmies known as the Efe people Ef . It is closely related to the Lese language , and the Efe live in association with the Lese people . Category Central Sudanic languages Category African Pygmies ... more details
Infobox Language speakers 26,000 2000 name Asoa region Ituri forest states Democratic Republic of Congo Congo DRC familycolor Nilo Saharan fam2 Central Sudanic fam3 Eastern fam4 Mangbetu Asoa languages Mangbetu Asoa iso3 asv Asoa , also known as Asua, Asuae, Asuati, or Aka, is a Central Sudanic languages Central Sudanic language spoken by the Mbuti Pygmies known as the Asua people Asua . It is closely related to the Mangbetu language , and the Asua live in association with the Mangbetu people . Category Central Sudanic languages Category African Pygmies Category Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Khonvoum is the supreme god and creator of the Mbuti Bambuti Pygmy people in central Africa . He is the great hunter , god of the hunt, and carries a bow made of two snake which appears to mortals as a rainbow. He rules the heavens and when the sun sets, he gathers pieces of the stars and throws it at the sun so that it may rise the next day in its full splendor. He contacts people by means of the mythical elephant Gor mythology Gor the thunderer or through a chameleon . Khonvoum created black and white people from black and white clay, and the Pygmies from red clay. For them he also created the jungle with its lush vegetation and animal life. See also Bambuti mythology Category Creator gods Category Hunting gods Category Sky and weather gods Category Pygmy mythology Category African mythology Africa myth stub es Khonvoum ... more details
Efe may refer to one of the following Efe people , an Mbuti pygmy people the Efe language Efe zeibek were leaders of Turkish outlaws and soldiers Efe ceremony see Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity Given name Efe Aydan , Turkish former professional basketball player Efe Cakarel , Turkish entrepreneur Efe nan , Turkish footballer EFE may mean Trofeo EFE , a Spanish football award. EFE , a Spanish news agency Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado , a railway in Chile The Einstein field equations Exclusive First Editions , a producer of die cast bus models Early fuel evaporator disambig given name Category Turkish masculine given names es EFE eo EFE it EFE ... more details
The Forest People 1961 is Colin Turnbull s ethnographic study of the Mbuti pygmies of the then Belgian Congo later Zaire and now Democratic Republic of Congo . In the widely popular book, the British American anthropologist detailed his three years spent with the community in the late 1950s. The style is informal and accessible. Turnbull contrasts his forest living subjects lifestyle with that of nearby town dwelling Africans and evaluates the interactions of the two groups. The Forest People was the popular version of Turnbull s academic thesis , which was published in an expanded, more technical form by Routledge in London as Wayward Servants The Two Worlds of the African Pygmies 1965 . External links http siris archives.si.edu ipac20 ipac.jsp?uri full 3100001 218991 0 Smithsonian listing of documentary footage of the area and communities described in the book http www7.nationalgeographic.com ngm 0509 feature5 BaMbuti Pygmies National Geographic Magazine National Geographic Feature in September 2005 DEFAULTSORT Forest People, The Category Anthropology books Category 1961 books Category African Pygmies Category Indigenous peoples of Central Africa science book stub ... more details
Corneille Ewango is a Democratic Republic of Congo Congolese environmentalist, and was responsible for the Okapi Faunal Reserve s botany program in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1996 to 2003. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2005 ref name goldman Goldman Environmental Prize 2005 http www.goldmanprize.org node 101 Corneille Ewango Retrieved on November 5, 2007 ref for his efforts to protect the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Ituri Rainforest during the Congo Civil War . The reserve is home to the Mbuti people, and houses animals such as okapi s found nowhere else , elephants and 13 primate species. Ewango has uncovered 270 species of liana s and 600 tree species in the area. References reflist External links http www.goldmanprize.org node 101 GoldmanPrize.com &ndash 2005 Goldman Environmental Prize recipient Media http www.ted.com talks view id 299 TED Talks Corneille Ewango is a hero of the Congo forest at TED conference TED Global in 2007 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ewango, Corneille ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ewango, Corneille Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category Democratic Republic of the Congo environmentalists DRCongo bio stub Scientist stub fr Corneille Ewango ... more details
Image R gion Ituri R publique d mocratique du Congo.png right thumb Map of Ituri within the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC Image In Darkest Africa forest clearing.jpg thumb Engraving of Stanley s expedition crossing a clearing in the forest, from his book In Darkest Africa , 1890 The Ituri Rainforest is a rainforest located in the Ituri region of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo formerly called Zaire. The forest s name derives from the nearby Ituri River which flows through the rainforest, connecting firstly to the Aruwimi River and finally into the Congo. Geography The Ituri Rainforest is about 63,000 square kilometres in area, and is located between 0 and 3 N and 27 and 30 E. Elevation in the Ituri ranges from about 700 m to 1000 m. The average temperature is 31 C 88 F and the average humidity is about 85 Wilkie 1987 . ref name Wilkie Wilkie, David. S. 1987. Impact of Swidden Agriculture and Subsistence Hunting on Diversity and Abundance of Exploited Fauna in the Ituri Forest of Northeastern Zaire. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, University of Massachusetts. ref About one fifth of the rainforest is made up of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve , a World Heritage Site . It is also the home of the Mbuti pygmy pygmies , one of the hunter gatherer peoples living in equatorial rainforests characterised by their short height below one and a half metres, or 59 inches, on average . They were the subject of a study by Colin Turnbull , The Forest People , in 1962. The Ituri Rainforest was first traversed by Europeans in 1887 by Henry Morton Stanley on his Emin Pasha Relief Expedition . References Reflist External links http www.bonoboincongo.com Blog by Biologists working on conservation in the Ituri forest http osfac.umd.edu Osfac coord missing Democratic Republic of the Congo Category Geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Category Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Category Forests of the Democrat ... more details
of not only modern Pygmy Pygmies like the Baka Cameroon and Gabon Baka and Mbuti , but also ... B2 Haplogroup B2 M182 has been found in 6 3 47 of a sample of Mbuti males from the Democratic Republic ... of Mbuti males from the Democratic Republic of the Congo . ref name Cruciani2002 Haplogroup B2a M150 xB2a1a M152 has been observed in 11 5 47 of a sample of Mbuti from Democratic Republic of the Congo ... from Central African Republic, ref name Wood2005 43 20 47 of a sample of Mbuti from the Democratic ... B2b2 M115, M169 has been found in 8 1 12 of a sample of Mbuti from the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... African Republic, ref name Wood2005 21 10 47 Mbuti from Democratic Republic of the Congo . ref name ... more details
Institute . He first gained prominence with his book The Forest People 1961 , an admiring study of the Mbuti ... , 1962 The Mbuti Pygmies An Ethnographic Survey in Anthropological Papers of the American Museum ... 6 The Human Cycle , 1983. ISBN 0 586 08493 2 The Mbuti Pygmies Change and Adaptation , 1983. ISBN 0 ... more details
refimprove date May 2010 Bambuti mythology is the mythology of the African Mbuti also known as Bambuti Pygmies of Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo . The most important god of the Bambuti pantheon is Khonvoum also Khonuum , Kmvoum , Chorum deity Chorum , a god of the hunt who wields a bow made from two snake s that together appear to human s as a rainbow . After sunset every day, Khonvoum gathers fragments of the star s and throws them into the sun to revitalize it for the next day. He occasionally contacts mortals through Gor mythology Gor a thunder god who is also an elephant or a chameleon similar to the divine messenger used by Orish nla of Yoruba mythology . Khonvoum created mankind from clay . Black people were made from black clay, white people came from white clay, and the Pygmies themselves came from red clay. He also creates the animals that are needed by hunters. Arebati is a lunar deity and Sky Father . In some sources, he was said to have created humanity from clay, instead of Khonvoum. Tore mythology Tore is a god of the forest s who supplies animals to hunters. He is also a thunder god who appears as a storm and hides in rainbow s. Most importantly, Tore appears as a leopard in the initiation rites. The first Pygmies stole fire from Tore he chased them but could not catch them, and when he returned home, his mother had died. As punishment, he decreed that humans would also die, and he thus became the death god. Negoogunogumbar is a child eating giant mythology giant . Obrigwabibikwa is a dwarf mythology dwarf who can change himself into a reptile . See also Other Pygmy groups Baka nomadic Central African people Baka Aka Pygmy tribe Aka Twa Researchers who studied pygmy culture and mythology Colin Turnbull Mauro Campagnoli External links http mb soft.com believe txo primitiv.htm Primitive religion http www.pygmies.org African Pygmies Culture and mythology of Pygmies, with photos and ethnographic notes http www.greatdreams.com moon moon worship.htm ... more details
by the Mbuti to build their homes. Economy The Kilo Moto gold mines are located in the Ituri region ... in the province. The Mbuti , a pygmy ethnic group, reside primarily in the Ituri forest near the Okapi Wildlife Reserve , although some Mbuti have been forced in recent years by deforestation ... more details
such as the Aka Pygmy tribe Aka Mbenga , Baka people Cameroon and Gabon Baka , Mbuti , and Twa ... Aka and Baka of the western Congo basin , the Mbuti Efe etc. of the Ituri Rainforest , and the Twa ... people Gabon Bongo Babongo of interior Gabon Mbuti or Bambuti Ituri rainforest, eastern Democratic ... stature, but this signal was not shared with Mbuti Pygmies. By contrast, we found strong signals ... hormone pathway TRIP4 in Mbuti Pygmies and IYD in Biaka Pygmies Fig. 7 . Intriguingly, a previous ... of recent positive selection that we observe at TRIP4 in Mbuti Pygmies and IYD in Biaka Pygmies may ... hormone pathway show signals of selection in Mbuti vs. Biaka Pygmies, this would suggest that short stature arose independently in the ancestors of Mbuti and Biaka Pygmies, and not in a common ... Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies, told the UN s Indigenous People s Forum that during ... more details
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In music , hocket is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of note music notes , pitch music pitches , or chord music chord s. In medieval practice of hocket, a single melody is shared between two or occasionally more voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests. In European music, hocket was used primarily in vocal music of the 13th and early 14th centuries. It was a predominant characteristic of music of the Notre Dame school , during the ars antiqua , in which it was found in sacred vocal music. In the 14th century, the device was most often found in secular vocal music. Image Hocket.png thumb center 550px Example of hocket In seculum d Amiens longum , French, late 13th century. Observe the quick alternation of sung notes and rests between the upper two voices. While this example is textless, the hocket was usually done on a vowel sound. The term originated in reference to medieval French motet s, but the technique remains in common use in contemporary music Louis Andriessen s Hoketus , popular music funk , stereo panning , the work of Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew in King Crimson , Music of Indonesia Indonesian gamelan music interlocking patterns shared between two musical instrument instruments called imbal in Java island Java and Kotekan in Bali , Andean music Andean siku panpipe music two pipe sets sharing the full number of pitches between them , handbell music tunes being distributed between two or more players , and many African cultures such as the Ba Benz l featured on Herbie Hancock s Watermelon Man composition Watermelon Man , see Pygmy music , Mbuti , Basarwa Khoisan , the Gumuz tribe from the Blue Nile Province Sudan , and Gogo culture Gogo Tanzania . It is also evident in drum and bugle corps drumline music, colloquially known as split parts or simply splits . The group Dirty Projectors uses hocketing as a very prominent element of their music, both with instruments as well as vocals. The composer Dave Longstret ... more details
ethnic group group Chokwe image Image WLANL Pachango Tropenmuseum Chokwebeeld 1 .jpg 250px Chokwe statue poptime 1.16 million popplace Angola , Congo Kinshasa , Zambia rels Christianity Christian , Animist langs Chokwe language Chokwe , many also speak French language French , Portuguese language Portuguese or English language English . related Mbundu , Bantu peoples Bantu Luba , Lunda , Lwena , Ovimbundu , Songo About the Central African ethnic group the city in Mozambique Chokwe, Mozambique the language Chokwe language File Angola tribes 1970.jpg thumb Ethnical map of Angola Chokwe Lunda area marked grey The Chokwe also pronounced Tchokwe are an ethnic group of Central Africa whose ancestry can perhaps be traced to Mbundu and Mbuti Pygmies . Large groups of Chokwe currently reside in Angola , Zambia , and the Democratic Republic of Congo . Their language is usually referred to as Chokwe language Chokwe , a Bantu languages Bantu language. Many also speak the official languages of their countries english language English in Zambia , French language French in Democratic Republic of Congo , and Portuguese language Portuguese as first or second language in Angola. History The Chokwe were once one of the twelve clans of the great Lunda Empire of 17th and 18th century Angola . They eventually became independent when they refused to continue paying tribute to the Lunda emperor. Their successful trading and abundant resources caused them to be one of the wealthiest groups in Angola. By 1900 the Chokwe had dismantled the Lunda kingdom altogether, using guns they had received in trade from the Ovimbundu . Chokwe language and influence then began to dominate northeastern Angola and spread among the Lunda peoples. The Portuguese had virtually no contact with the Chokwe until the 1930s when the Chokwe traded beeswax wax , rubber and ivory . The Portuguese then quickly brought an end to the dominance of the Chokwe people in the region. Bibliography Areia, M. L. Rodrigues de. Cho ... more details
Infobox haplogroup name L5 origin date 114,200 126,200 YBP ref name soares cite journal title Correcting for Purifying Selection An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock year 2009 url http www.cell.com AJHG abstract S0002 9297 09 00163 3 doi 10.1016 j.ajhg.2009.05.001 pmid 19500773 last1 Soares first1 P last2 Ermini first2 L last3 Thomson first3 N last4 Mormina first4 M last5 Rito first5 T last6 R hl first6 A last7 Salas first7 A last8 Oppenheimer first8 S last9 MacAulay first9 V volume 84 issue 6 pages 740 59 pmc 2694979 journal American journal of human genetics ref origin place East Africa ancestor L2 3 4 5 6 descendants Haplogroup L5a mtDNA L5a , Haplogroup L5c mtDNA L5c mutations 3423, 7972, 12432, 12950 ref name vanOven cite journal title Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation journal Human Mutation date 13 Oct 2008 first Mannis last van Oven coauthors Manfred Kayser volume 30 issue 2 pages E386 E394 pmid 18853457 url http www3.interscience.wiley.com journal 121449735 abstract?CRETRY 1&SRETRY 0 format accessdate 2009 05 20 doi 10.1002 humu.20921 ref In human mitochondrial genetics , Haplogroup L5 is a Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup human mitochondrial DNA mtDNA haplogroup . It was previously known as L1e . Origin Empty section date December 2009 Distribution It is a small African haplogroup from East Africa . The highest frequency is in Mbuti Pygmies at 15 . ref Sarah A. Tishkoff et al. 2007, http mbe.oxfordjournals.org cgi content full 24 10 2180 History of Click Speaking Populations of Africa Inferred from mtDNA and Y Chromosome Genetic Variation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 2007 24 10 2180 2195 ref It is present in relatively small frequencies in Tanzania Sandawe and others , Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Nubia, Egypt ref name Stevanovitch cite journal title Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Diversity in a Sedentary Population from Egypt journal Annals of Human Genetics date 29 JAN 2004 first A last Stevanovitc ... more details
Image Aasgaardreien peter nicolai arbo mindre.jpg thumb 325px sg rdsreien 1872 by Peter Nicolai Arbo , depicting the Wild Hunt of European folklore A hunting god is a deity in mythology associated with the hunting of animals and the skills and equipment involved. They are a common feature of polytheism polytheistic religions. List of hunting deities African mythology Khonvoum , supreme god of the Mbuti Pygmy people in central Africa the great hunter Anglo Saxon mythology W den , leader of the Wild Hunt Aztec mythology Atlaua , water god and patron of fishers and archers Mixcoatl , god of the hunt Opochtli , god of hunting and fishing Celtic mythology Cernunnos , a horned god associated with fertility and hunting Nodens , god associated with healing, the sea, hunting and dogs Egyptian mythology Neith , goddess of war and the hunt Pakhet , a lioness huntress deity, whom the Greeks associated with Artemis Finnish mythology Mielikki , goddess of forests and the hunt Nyyrikki , god of the hunt Tapio spirit Tapio , East Finnish forest spirit to whom men prayed before a hunt Greek mythology Aristaeus , god of bee keeping, cheese making, herding, olive growing and hunting Artemis , goddess of the hunt, wild animals and the wilderness Britomartis , Crete Cretan goddess of hunting and nets used for fishing, fowling and the hunting of small game Heracles Kynagidas , Macedon ian god of hunting Lelantos , god of air and the hunter s skill of stalking prey Orion mythology Orion , a giant huntsman whom Zeus placed among the stars as the Orion constellation constellation of Orion Hindu mythology Banka Mundi , goddess of the hunt and fertility Rudra , Rigveda Rigavedic god associated with wind or storm, and the hunt Hittite mythology Rundas , god of the hunt and good fortune Inuit mythology Arnakuagsak , goddess responsible for ensuring the hunters were able to catch enough food and that the people remained healthy and strong Arnapkapfaaluk , sea goddess who inspired fear in hunter ... more details
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