The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.
Pygmy
A member of any ethnic group in which the average height of the adult male is less than four feet, eleven inches. There are Pygmy tribes in dense rain-forest areas of central Africa, southern India, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The most widely studied Pygmies are the Mbuti of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, who pursue a nomadic hunting and gathering subsistence (seenomadismandhunting and gathering societies), but have established complex interdependent relationships with their non-Pygmy farming neighbors.
