The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies - Hardcover

Mark, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803231822 ISBN 13: 9780803231825

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1995

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Book by Mark Joan T

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"The engrossing story of a true eccentric who fled his family of prominent Bostonians to set up a little kingdom in colonial Africa."--"Publishers Weekly"

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Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious multiracial community. He modeled his camp on the "dude ranches" of the American West, taking in paying guests while running a medical clinic and occasionally offering legal aid to the local people, and assumed the role of intermediary between locals and visitors, including Colin M. Turnbull, author of the classic Forest People. Mark describes Putnam's mercurial relations with family and with his African and American wives--and follows him to his sad and violent end. She places Patrick Putnam within the context of three different anthropological traditions and examines his contribution as an expert on pygmies.

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• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0803231822
• ISBN 13: 9780803231825
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276