Photo gallery with soundscapes and quotes from the book The Forest Has You

GABON VIPER

African Rainforest & Pygmy Peoples

Gabon viper (Bitis gabonica). With its magnificent, camouflaging markings, it is the largest viper in the world and its venomous fangs are longer than any other snake's.

"They are evil spirits, says the old man. Shadows that wander through the forest, tearing at the air with their claws and teeth. Some are men, sorcerers who take on different shapes so they can kill us and feed on our hearts..."

Luis Devin, The Forest Has You. Story of an Initiation
Italian edition: La foresta ti ha. Storia di un'iniziazione
(Castelvecchi - LIT Edizioni)

Soundscape: fragment of a Bafut dance
(Northwestern Cameroon).

Previous
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Airplane
over the forest

Following
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Bath in
the forest

The author:

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.

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From the author's fieldwork experience among the Baka:

The Forest Has You. Story of an Initiation
by Luis Devin
Italian edition: La foresta ti ha. Storia di un'iniziazione
(Castelvecchi - LIT Edizioni)

A true story from the heart of Africa,
a journey into an unknown world,
among leaf huts, spirits of the forest
and the initiation rites of the Baka Pygmies.

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Book about African Pygmies: The Forest Has You - Story of an Initiation, by Luis Devin

Photo gallery about African Pygmies and the rainforest, with soundscapes from pygmy camps and the forest.

Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/rainforest-pygmies/photo-gallery.php?photo=83 Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin.
The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the Baka and the other Pygmy peoples live, is 05:32.
Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).