Back Pigmee Afrikaans بيغمي Arabic بيجمى ARZ Piqmey (xalq) Azerbaijani Пігмеі Byelorussian Пигмеи Bulgarian পিগমি Bengali/Bangla ཕིག་མིའི་མི། Tibetan Pigmeed Breton Pigmeus Catalan
 Aka Pygmies on the Congo Basin in 2014 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Central Africa, Oceania, Southeast Asia |
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.[1]
Although the term is considered derogatory,[2][3] it is primarily associated with the African Pygmies, the hunter-gatherers of the Congo Basin (comprising the Bambenga, Bambuti and Batwa).[4]
The terms "Asiatic Pygmies" and "Oceanic pygmies" have been used to describe the Negrito populations of Southeast Asia and Australo-Melanesian peoples of short stature.[5] The Taron people of Myanmar are an exceptional case of a "pygmy" population of East Asian phenotype.
- ^ "Pygmy". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2007. Archived from the original on 28 March 2007. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ Hewlett, Barry S. (1996). "Cultural diversity among African pygmies". In Kent, Susan (ed.). Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth-Century Foragers. Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010.
- ^ VICE (21 May 2024). The Congolese Tribes Selling Weed to Survive | WEEDIQUETTE. Retrieved 23 May 2024 – via YouTube.
- ^ "African Pygmies". 7 February 2016. Archived from the original on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de (1895). The Pygmies. Retrieved 30 June 2022.