Tribe - S01E04 (Babongo)
Tribe - S01E04 (Babongo)
XviD | 480*272 | 25 fps | MP3 128kbps | English | 00:58:58 | 344 MB
Tribe (known as Going Tribal in the United States) is a documentary television series co-produced by the BBC and the Discovery Channel, and hosted by former British Royal Marine Bruce Parry. In each series, Parry visits a number of remote tribes in such locales as the Himalayas, Ethiopia, West Papua, Gabon and Mongolia, spending a month living and interacting with each society. While there, Parry adopts the methods and practices of his hosts, participating in their rituals and exploring their cultural norms. This often enables him to form personal bonds with the members of each tribe. Parry tries to learn the basics of the tribe's language but is also accompanied by a translator.
Babongo people
The Babongo are a forest people of Gabon on the west coast of equatorial Africa. They are originators of the Bwiti religion, based on consumption of the intoxicating hallucinogenic iboga plant. For comparison of its spiritual and cultural roles, see ayahuasca aka yage, also botanical alkaloid based, and marijuana in Rastafarianism. Other peoples in Gabon have combined traditional Bwiti practices with animism and Christian concepts to produce a very different modern form of Bwiti.
Tribe - S01E04 (Babongo)
The Babongo have recently changed from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to settled villagers with subsistence agriculture supplemented by hunting. They have radio but not television in their small village communities and the few metal implements they possess come from the outside world. They are otherwise self-sufficient in their villages. The Babongo are largely illiterate in the official French language with little political influence in Gabon and are in danger of dispossession and displacement from their ancestral forest lands. …more
Previous Episodes:
S01E01 (Adi)
S01E02 (Suri)
S01E03 (Kombai)