Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population interactions in the northwestern Congo Basin : when, how and why does the ethnographic pattern begin? / Karen Lupo, A. Jean-Paul Ndanga, and Christopher Kiahtipes -- Do 'Pygmies' have a history? : the autochthonous tradition in the history of equatorial Africa / Robert Moïse -- Human biology and the health of African rainforest inhabitants / Alain Froment -- The foraging lifestyle in the African tropical rainforest / Hiroaki Sato -- Pygmy musics : a family portrait / Susanne Fürniss -- Pygmy hunter-gatherer egalitarian social organization : the case of the Mbendjele Bayaka / Jerome Lewis -- Hunter-gatherer childhoods in the Congo Basin / Barry Hewlett -- Multiangular identities among Congo River Basin forest peoples / Stephanie Rupp -- Inter-ethnic relations between forest foragers and farmers : dialectic symbiosis and diversity / Kiyoshi Takeuchi -- Forest conservation and indigenous peoples in the Congo Basin : new trends toward reconciliation between global issues and local interest / Mitsuo Ichikawa.