PHOTO: A Bakota (Bantu) candidate for ritual circumcision in a rainforest village (Bakota, Gabon).
SOUNDSCAPE: polyphonic song recorded in a Bakoya village in the rainforest of Gabon (Bakoya Pygmies of Gabon)
"You cut your hair, begin to dress in a different way, and the community immediately understand that you are no longer the same person. You are entering into a special stage of your life, a liminal stage. Or you are coming out of one..."Luis Devin,
The Forest Has You(La foresta ti ha - Castelvecchi/LIT Edizioni)
