Colin Turnbull

Collin Macmillan Turnbull was a British American anthropologist that came famous with the popular books the forest people and the mountain people. The forest book from the Mbuti Pygmy in Zane, and the mountain people of the IK people of Uganda. Turnball was born in London and studied in Westminster school and Magdalen College. He studied politics and psychology in Oxford. In 1951 after he had graduated from Banaras Hindu university he went to Congo with Newton Beal .He studied the Bambuti pygmy’s at first, but then he encountered a job. This job consisted on building a boat for a Hollywood film. After he constructed the boat, he traveled to Canada , to work in a gold mine and geologist . Became us citizen after he had been named curator of African Ethnology at the American museum of American History . Then moved to Virginia and worked at the Department of anthropology and Sociology . Other professional work was Corresponding Member of Royal Museum of Central Africa and fellowship in British Royal Anthropological institute. Between all these grandness in his career that was his sexuality , he had a partner called Joe Towles. They lived as an opened gay couple in New York , and then in Virginia till Joes death . He died of AIDS , after Joe’s death Turnball stayed totally in shock, till he died by his own Aids. 

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