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The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies | 
 enlarge | Author: Joan T. Mark
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2083935
Media: Paperback
Pages: 276
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0803282508
Dewey Decimal Number: 509
EAN: 9780803282506
ASIN: 0803282508
Publication Date: December 1, 1998
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Product Description
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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