Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin
African Pygmies   > Fieldwork   > Audio-Photo Diary (Baka Initiation Rite)

FIELDWORK AUDIO-PHOTO DIARY

---  Baka Pygmy Rite of Initiation to the Spirit of the Forest  ---



Initiation rite (2)
Luis Devin with other initiation candidates (Left), and with elderly men
during a public ritual in the Baka initiation camp (Right) (Cameroon).
Soundscape: sounds of the Baka initiation camp
and surrounding rainforest. In the background, ritual
dance with initiates shouting (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon).

Research photo gallery with soundscapes from the African rainforest and villages
(Anthropological and ethnomusicological fieldwork of Luis Devin among hunter-gatherers and other peoples of Central Africa)
Section: Baka Pygmy Rite of Initiation to the Spirit of the Forest - Page 13 (2 photos)

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