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Distribution & Wealth
Gender Roles
- Equal sharing of food
- No need for money
- Hunting
Villages & Mbuti
- Gathering
- Equal to everyone (except elders)
- Seen as powerful because of ability to give birth
- Seen as burden
- Relationship between lineage head & villager chief
- Often help with upkeep of roads
- do not recognize authority of villager chief
Trade
- Local villages
- Honey and Meat <--> Crops
- Must continuously move near villages
Yearly Cycles
- Honey Season
- 2 months long
- No environmental change
- Changing seasons
Production of Food
- Society based on hunting and gathering
- live on small game and large game
- collect fruits, nuts, insects
- do not practice agriculture
General Information
- hunter and gathers
- Inturi Forest
- pygmy
- found close to equator in Africa
- 3 different groups of Mbuti
- 30,000 - 40,000 today
The Mbuti