Societies of perpetual movement

[firemonkey]

We moved in a line, led by four men who searched the rainforest as they walked, barefoot. At the head of the snake, one of our guides cut narrow tunnels through the foliage with a machete. Two others followed, carrying large containers with the drinking water and food we would need for the week ahead. And at the end of the procession, the last guide made sure another researcher and I did not fall behind or get lost amid the maze of trees. We were exhausted. We had found nothing after seven hours of cutting through vegetation and wading through water and mud. I had lost count of the number of times we had turned back on a path or stopped to discuss alternative routes.
The men were looking for their home. It was a home that did not stay still but roved across the rainforest of the Likouala region as their community moved through the Northern Part of the Republic of Congo. Being members of the Mbendjele BaYaka, one of the few remaining mobile hunter-gatherer groups in the world today, these men had neither permanent houses nor private  possessions. This, they told us, made the search challenging, even for insiders like themselves.

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