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The Malimo is introduced as a trumpet-like instrument that allows Pygmies to communicate with the forest and spirit world and resolve problems.
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The Pygmy attitude is trust: they do not need to control nature because they believe the forest and its animals know them.
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In Turnbull's passage, the Pygmies' fearlessness comes from feeling themselves part of the forest and fearing only what is not of the forest.
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The Pygmy attitude is trust: they do not need to control nature because they believe the forest and its animals know them.
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The Malimo is called when hunting is bad, illness happens, or someone dies, because bad events mean the forest or spirits are not properly awake and caring for the community.
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Singing to the forest wakes it up happy and restores well-being; Jiang reads this as communicating with spirits in the same pattern as shamanic spirit-world travel.
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Jiang says the shared idea across these religions is that animals, plants, and humans are interconnected and that the spirit world or forest is the real world.
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Jiang says settled communities depleted nearby forest resources, which meant they had to farm.
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"...like instrument and the Malimo allows them to communicate with the forest it allows them to communicate with the spirit world and that's how..."
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"...about in search of food they seem unwilling to disturb the forest or the animals it concealed just the opposite in fact it was..."
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"...betray their presence to some person or thing not of the forest they stood there quiet and still and it struck me with a..."
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"...in the zoo, right? We do not like animals in the forest. We can control animals in the zoo, we cannot control animals in..."
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"But for most of human history, for most people, this is not playing. This is not pretending. It's true. It's real. It's what allows..."
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"everything goes well in our world, in our forest, but at night when we are sleeping, sometimes things go wrong because we are not..."
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"...same. This is not the real world. The spirit world, the forest, they're the real world. And for us to maintain our health and..."
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"Of the forest. Which means that you must go to farming. Okay? Does that make sense? So, but then eventually, because you have so..."
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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