Pygmies
In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a population) for populations in which adult men are on average less than 150 cm (4 ft 11 in) tall.The term is primarily associated with the African Pygmies, the hunter-gatherers of the Congo basin (comprising the Bambenga, Bambuti and Batwa).The terms "Asiatic Pygmies" and "Oceanian pygmies" have been used to describe the Negrito populations of Southeast Asia and Australo-Melanesian peoples of short stature. The …
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CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 5 March 2024 English
to the amount of cops on the street, were drawn from the city’s rapidly City dwellers’ relationship to the to the cost of rent, policy makes and growing unhoused population. …
levels of state and the Earth to protect the little pygmies—is helpless when interests of private capital? …
ANV: Anvil Press · 21 December 2022 English
From the author of 19 Knives and My White Planet comes a brilliant suite of stories built around music and travel. Whether it’s a band coming apart at the ruins …
with countless tiny shakes, as if fastidious pygmies had worked on the exterior walls. “This is pretty …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 December 2022 English
a keeper of things forgotten, a vase / for pictures made by words, a riverbed / for the stories you tell, an earthen silhouette / of a childWith vivid imagery …
Himmler, Hitler Lake Titicaca, Aboriginals, Pygmies mummies, piranhas Detroit locker power-take-off …
ECW Press · 26 April 2022 English
"For readers of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war …
orangutan and Komodo dragons he’s heard about, the pygmies and Dayak people. But those aren’t the exploits …
City of Calgary, Alberta · 14 April 2022 English
Building on the rights- based framework, the authors considered the recommendations stemming from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP), and Reclaiming Power and …
climate change: A case study of Uganda’s Batwa Pygmies. Social Science & Medicine, 75(6), 1067–1077. …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 December 2021 English
Between 1917 and 1923, invasion, revolution, war, and grim living conditions claimed unimaginable numbers of Ukrainian lives. Velychenko examines the social background to the political history of revolutionary Ukraine, documenting …
Part of what Churchill called the “wars of the pygmies,” and “the unknown war” in eastern Europe, events …
HER: Heritage House Publishing · 1 September 2020 English
Between 1925 and his death in 1940, Emilio Comici was the pre-eminent climber in the Eastern Alps, the hotbed of global rock climbing at that time. He made first ascents …
steep wall slowed them down. They were “two tiny pygmies up on the wall,” wrote Emilio, “whom a breath …
desLibris · 29 May 2020 English
The New the Olympic Museum case, the Aboriginal artists, Zealand government stepped in to request Fiat to as authors of their artistic works, were able either have the haka in …
album Deep Forest referred to the music of the Pygmies of the Central African rainforest, whereas its …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 2 March 2020 English
The poems in E. Alex Pierce's new collection invite readers to meditate upon language embedded in landscape, and trace the formation of a young artist who begins in music, arrives …
hundred yellow National Geographics with pictures of pygmies and crocodiles, naked Black women, startling to …
RON: Ronsdale Press · 2019 English
The book is an account of a motorcycle journey across the United States in which the author, Canadian Hamilton Mack Laing, describes the many bird species that he encounters. Laing …
roadside were quite short and stunted, almost pygmies by comparison with the big, broad-frocked, ten-foot …
