Conjugal families often visit their relations living in other camps for a few days or even a few months. On such occasions, visitors are involved in the camp's daily life and they continue living as they would in their own camp. As months go by, communities come together and split up in a perpetual movement of fusion and fission . Hunting plays an essential role in the social organization. First of all because it is an activity that mobilizes the strength of all members of the community, and second because it is aroung hunting that evolve religious activities and the different stages of an individual's social development.
Several rituals surround hunting activities, both propitiatory and expiatory.
We have already said that all Pygmies have been closely associated with groups of agriculturalists for several centuries . For a long time, these relationships remained balanced, but they are a potential source of conflict and inequality in a context of social and economic crisis such as most equatorial countries are living through at present. It is absolutely essential to include these ancient relationships between Pygmies and agriculturalists in any development project aimed at Pygmies. To omit such a factor would necessarily lead to failure and serious disruption for those same people the project aims at helping. Breaking up these relationships as a pre-requirement to these projects may not be advisable, though many seem to think so.