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A family from a Ba Aka pygmy village. The term pygmy, as used to refer to diminutive people, comes via Latin pygmaeus from Greek πυγμαῖος pygmaîos, derived from πυγμή pygmḗ, meaning "short cubit", or a measure of length corresponding to the distance from the elbow to the first knuckle of the middle finger, meant to express pygmies' diminutive stature.
Pygmies are often evicted from their land and given the lowest paying jobs. At a state level, Pygmies are not considered citizens by most African states, and are refused identity cards, deeds to land, health care and education access. [citation needed] Aka Pygmies living in the Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve in Central African Republic
Similarly, valuables were exchanged whenever dwarfs and pygmies switched their employer or there was a change of the head of the house. Evidently, in rare cases, nanism would appear naturally within a healthy, normally grown family. Thus not all dwarfs and pygmies were inevitably gained by bestowal or acquisition. [2] [3] [4]
The Pygmies are among central Africa's oldest indigenous peoples, but wars and competing cultures are taking a toll on their very existence. For Congo's Pygmies, expulsion and forest clearance end ...
Small stature also confers a small advantage for body heat dissipation in equatorial (hot, humid) regions. (While there are pygmy peoples in colder climates as well, this may have occurred by migration.) [9] Arab slave raids, especially from the 1850s until the 1890s, served to destabilise the region.
A Pygmy fights a crane, Attic red-figure chous, 430–420 BC, National Archaeological Museum of Spain. The Pygmies (Ancient Greek: Πυγμαῖοι Pygmaioi, from the adjective πυγμαῖος, from the noun πυγμή pygmē "fist, boxing, distance from elbow to knuckles," from the adverb πύξ pyx "with the fist") were a tribe of diminutive humans in Greek mythology.
The star of the show was, of course, Moo Deng, the pygmy hippo, who, with her dewy skin and chaotic spirit, won over the hearts of netizens. ... whereas a small or short-haired dog may struggle ...
Native American "Little People" from Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers, 1917. Little people have been part of the folklore of many cultures in human history, including Ireland, Greece, the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand, Flores Island, Indonesia, and Native Americans.