Pygmies of Zaire (the Congo). Turnbull (1961) provided a rich ethnography of the Pygmies of Zaire, who reside in the northeast corner of the Ituri Forest, a heavily vegetated rain forest. Pygmies, also known as the Ba Mbuti, area communal hunting and gathering people who live in temporary camps and who reflect well some of the principles enunciated in the present article. For example, huts were constructed out of large leaves and were repaired and rearranged on a frequent basis. Turnbull noted that the arrival of a new family or person in a camp might result in a door being moved from one side of the hut to the other, especially if the new arrival was disliked by the older resident. One could almost keep track of arguments, jealousies, and conflicts as the directions of the huts were rearranged. People also sometimes built “spite fences” between one another’s huts during serious disagreements. While largely using environmental mechanisms, this ethnography demonstrates the dynamic quality of privacy regulation among a group of people who live in close contact and who otherwise seem to have little privacy in the traditional sense.