Summary Of The Article My Life With Africa's Little People

National Geographic Essay A photograph can be very powerful and meaningful. One picture can change the world or show you a type of concept that might be reality. The National Geographic magazine depicts the worldview of third world countries such as their cultures, the people, and the location. The image they portray of non-western can easily came from pure educational standpoint or an entrainment one. Lutz and Collins argue that this magazine makes the American’s view on what they think third world countries are. The National Geographic magazine “is a glossy, stylized presentation of highly limited number of themes and types of images” (Lutz & Collins: 5). In the article, “My Life With Africa’s Little People,” Anne Eisner Putman talks about her time in the deep Ituri rainforest of Belgian Congo with the Pygmies people around the 1960s. She describes the Pygmies as “tiny reddish-chocolate people” with an average height of four to five feet. Putman begins to observe their daily routines

The young generations of Pygmies love to play games as well, but their games would include anything they find. A photograph of a group of young boys on the left with a drum looking upon a group of two women and the rest men lined up with a boy going through their legs is an interesting image. It is like playing musical chairs despite the absences of the chairs, they use their legs. Honestly, the first thought that comes to mind is, what are they doing? I do not know what is this image trying to say. Two naked women up against each other with one against a man, this is outrageous, yet they are doing something harmless. The children are playing a game with each other to have some fun, which is all. They are framed to look different from the Western culture because Americans like to think their culture is the correct way to live, even though that is not the