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Revealed: “Pygmy” children paid in glue and alcohol (Survival International Charitable Trust)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jan 2016
(Source. Survival International Charitable Trust). Forced from their forest homes, many central African hunter-gatherer tribes face exploitation on the fringes of mainstream society. © C. Fornellino Romero/Survival ... The report found instances of market traders in the Republic of Congo plying children from the Bayaka tribe with glue in 2013, in exchange for cleaning out latrines ... Atono, a Baka man forcibly evicted from his land said ... (noodl....

'What We Do in the Shadows,' 'It Follows' and others add a fresh bite

Edit The Los Angeles Times 01 Jan 2016
"What We Do in the Shadows" ... "Far From Men" ... See more of Entertainment’s top stories on Facebook >>. "It Follows" ... German author-photojournalist Michael Obert etches an evocative portrait of a man who found his muse by answering the call of the Bayaka pygmies.Ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno's captivating journey into the Central African Republic's lush jungles casts a quietly poetic spell ... ....

Poaching-terrorism link that contributed to tribes' persecution 'largely wrong' (Survival International Charitable Trust)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Sep 2015
Tribal peoples like the Bushmen in Botswana, Bayaka in the Republic of Congo, and Baka "Pygmies" and their neighbors in Cameroon are criminalized as poachers for hunting to feed their families, while trophy hunters and corrupt officials involved in poaching - including some charged with protecting the environment - are not targeted....

Why We Can Depend On The Kindness Of Strangers

Edit National Public Radio 15 May 2015
1.24 PM ET. Thomas K. Grose. i. We're pretty good at living and working with people who aren't our relatives. A new study tries to figure out the origins of that ability ... A team of anthropologists at University College London interviewed hundreds of couples in two hunter-gatherer tribes, the Palanan Agta of the Philippines and the Congo's Mbendjele BaYaka, as well as the Filipino farming tribe, the Paranan, which is a patriarchal society ... ....

Polyphony

Edit Topix 20 Apr 2015
Louis Sarno was born in Newark and has lived for thirty years on the edge of a forest in the Central African Republic, among the Bayaka-one of the peoples sometimes described as pygmies. A couple of weeks ago, Sarno flew by five-seater plane to YaoundA©, the capital of Cameroon, and from there to Istanbul, where he caught a flight to J.F.K ... ....

'Song From the Forest' stirringly bridges seemingly incongruent worlds

Edit The Los Angeles Times 17 Apr 2015
Captivated by the songs of the Bayaka pygmies, New Jersey-born ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno followed the exotic melodies to their Congo River basin source more than two decades ago and ended up canceling his return ticket.lRelated MOVIES'True Story' has too-obvious showdown of two mindsSee all related....

In ‘Song From the Forest,’ Louis Sarno Links Africa and America

Edit New York Times 10 Apr 2015
A father-son relationship, music and the Bayaka of the Central African Republic are central to this documentary. ....

Tribes call on world leaders to recognize their right to hunt (Survival International Charitable Trust)

Edit noodls 24 Mar 2015
(Source. Survival International Charitable Trust) ... Thousands of supporters of Survival sent a similar message to representatives of the EU, USA and UK, and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF ) ... © Survival ... Baka "Pygmies" in Cameroon and Bayaka "Pygmies" in the Republic of Congo have been beaten and tortured by anti-poaching squads, and fear going into the forest to hunt ... Notes to editors. ... ... Read more. distributed by....

?Why do we sing?: Senior Jack Canfield seeks answers as 2015 Watson Fellow (Lawrence University)

Edit noodls 16 Mar 2015
(Source. Lawrence University) ... Canfield's project will take him to French Polynesia, the Republic of the Congo, Norway and Tuva beginning in August ... It's synonymous with life." ... From Rapa, Canfield will spent December through February in the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of the Congo, where upwards of 3,000 semi-nomadic Bayaka incorporate communal singing as a form of communication within the dense rain forests ... (noodl....

World Wildlife Day: tribespeople denounce persecution in the name of 'conservation' (Survival International Charitable Trust)

Edit noodls 02 Mar 2015
Powerful video testimonies by Bayaka "Pygmies" in the Republic of Congo highlight their intimate connection with their lands and the abuses they face at the hands of anti-poaching squads - who are often funded by large conservation organizations like the Worldwide Fund for Nature and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS ).  ... Watch video testimonies by Bayaka and Baiga....

Catch a Sneak Preview of Carnegie Mellon’s International Film Festival Feb. 27 (Carnegie Mellon University)

Edit noodls 13 Feb 2015
(Source. Carnegie Mellon University). Thursday, February 12, 2015. By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 ... 27 in McConomy Auditorium. The film follows Louis Sarno as he abandons modern civilization to join the Bayaka people and start a family. Sarno continues with his music studies, compiling more than 1,000 hours of original Bayaka music, and then after 25 years returns to New York to show the city to his son ... ### ... (noodl. 26894580) ....

16 Documentaries To Watch Out For This Year

Edit Huffington Post 10 Nov 2014
What happens when an American musicologist leaves modern society to live with Central African Republic's Bayaka pygmies? Louis Sarno (the college roommate of Jim Jarmusch) tells his story in "Songs from the Forest," a stunning portrait of music and family, that follows the father -- with his son Samedi -- as he returns to New York City after 25 years away....

Film Review: ‘Song From the Forest’

Edit IMDb 01 Apr 2014
... behind, Louis Sarno has dedicated the better part of his life to documenting one of the rarest and most remote musical traditions on earth — that of the Central African Republic’s Bayaka pygmies....
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