Pygmies.org is a website dedicated to the hunter-gatherer peoples living in Central African rainforests, commonly called
Pygmies.
This website has been created and is maintained by the Italian ethnomusicologist
Luis Devin. It presents hundreds of photos and other material collected during his fieldwork among the
Baka of Cameroon and Gabon and among other pygmy groups in Central Africa. Along with the images (concerning the life and traditional activities of these peoples, the Central African rainforest biodiversity, and the increasingly rapid disappearance of this world), you can find some brief ethnographic descriptions serving as introduction to pygmy cultures or commentary on the photos. Each internal page also includes sound or music recordings relative to the soundscape of the rainforest and pygmy camps.
The main aim of these pages is, therefore, to provide an introduction to the cultures of pygmy peoples and to promote their protection, documenting their richness and showing some of the factors that increasingly threaten their survival (for more information, visit the
About section of the site).
A special thank goes to the Baka friends of the author as well as the other forest peoples who made his fieldwork possible over the years, always with great patience and affection, accepting him in their camps and in the extraordinary African rainforest world.
