“Pygmy” is a term used in anthropology to describe diverse peoples, especially from (Equatorial) Africa and Asia (i.e. New Guinea), the adult males of whom are regarded as of unusually short stature. Beyond the term’s use to refer to the physical features of these diverse ethnic groups (and which in part makes it derogatory for some) the term is also used negatively as an insult to critique someone’s intellectual capacities. Some indigenous peoples, for example in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have reclaimed the term as neutral and therefore non-problematic.