Relocated to the Roadside: Preliminary Observations on the Forest Peoples of Gabon
Relocated to the Roadside: Preliminary Observations on the Forest Peoples of Gabon
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搬到路边：对加蓬森林民族的初步观察
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2003
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J. Knight
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加蓬的森林民族（通常被称为俾格米人）直到最近才在学术论坛上引起很少的注意。似乎人们普遍认为，这些群体在很大程度上被同化为占主导地位的邻近族群，因此采用了新的文化习俗，并失去了许多自己的文化习俗（安德森，1983）。最近的研究揭示了一系列社会经济状况，包括以森林为基础的半游牧社区，他们将狩猎和采集与流动耕作结合起来。然而，大多数加蓬的森林人民已经搬到了路边，在最后的森林群体仍然存在的地方，重新安置是不可避免的或正在进行中。整合外生和本地的历史思想，本文的目的是考虑加蓬森林人民在学术和现实方面被重新安置到路边的原因。根据最近的实地调查，它提供了以下方面的初步观察：加蓬森林人民目前的分布、定居模式和生存战略；它们已经（并将继续）重新定位的过程；以及他们接受或拒绝包容的各种努力的影响。
The Forest Peoples of Gabon (commonly referred to as the Pygmies) have, until recently, attracted little attention in the academic forum. It seems it is widely assumed that these groups are largely assimilated into dominant neighbouring ethnic groups and have consequently adopted new cultural practices and lost many of their own (Anderson, 1983). Recent research has revealed a range of socio-economic situations including forest-based semi-nomadic communities who combine hunting and gathering with shifting cultivation. However, the majority of Gabon's Forest Peoples have moved to the roadside, and where the last forest-based groups remain, relocation is inevitable or in process. Integrating ideas of history both exogenous and local, the aim of this paper is to consider the reasons why the Forest Peoples of Gabon have been relocated to the roadside in both academic and real terms. Based on recent fieldwork it provides preliminary observations on: the present distribution, settlement patterns and subsistence strategies of the Forest Peoples of Gabon; the processes by which they have been (and continue to be) relocated; and the effects of their various efforts to accept or reject inclusion.