| Parenting(Baka Pygmies of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo)Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis DevinSoundscape: Baka children's voices in a rainforest camp (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon). | | | 3. Elderly woman comforting her granddaughter at the camp, while her parents are in the rainforest searching for food and trap hunting. Baka women | | | |
| | 4. Elderly head of the family with one of her numerous great- grandchildren on her knees. | | | |
| | 5. Young father with his few-weeks-old son in his arms. Baka men | | | |
| | 6. Baka woman rubbing a traditional remède on her son's skin. | | | |
| | | | 8. Baka girl taking care of her niece, while her brother and sister in law are in the rainforest searching for food. | | | |
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Music anthropologist and writer, he has carried out field research in central Africa, where he lived with the Baka Pygmies and other forest peoples, whose music, rituals and survival strategies he has been studying for more than a decade. www.luisdevin.comwww.facebook.com/LuisDevin | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | HOME SECTION INDEX BACKBaka Pygmy parental care, with photos and ethnographic notes (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo).Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/baka/parenting.phpPhotos, videos and sounds are available for licensing, both for multimedia use and paper publications. For the terms and conditions, contact the author from the Contact page. The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the Baka Pygmy people live, is 04:18. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF). Go to the Baka Pygmies section indexCopyright © 1998-2024 Luis Devin. All rights reserved. | | | | | | | |
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