Colin Turnbull holding a friend's baby, Gainesville, Florida, 1993
Born
(1924-11-23)November 23, 1924
London, England
Died
July 28, 1994(1994-07-28) (aged 69)
Virginia, US
Nationality
British, American
Citizenship
British, later American
Alma mater
Magdalen College, Oxford Banaras Hindu University
Known for
The Forest People
Scientific career
Fields
Anthropology Ethnomusicology
Colin Macmillan Turnbull (November 23, 1924 – July 28, 1994) was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People (on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire) and The Mountain People (on the Ik people of Uganda), and one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.
Colin Macmillan Turnbull (November 23, 1924 – July 28, 1994) was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books...
anthropologist ColinTurnbull's highly contested book The Mountain People, which described them as traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers. According to Turnbull, the...
Researchers who have studied Pygmy music include Simha Arom, Louis Sarno, ColinTurnbull and Jean-Pierre Hallet. The Mbenga (Aka/Benzele) and Baka peoples in...
metres, or 59 inches, on average). They were the subject of a study by ColinTurnbull, The Forest People, in 1962. Pygmies who live in Southeast Asia are...
The Forest People (1961) is ColinTurnbull's ethnographic study of the Mbuti pygmies of the Uturi Forest in then-Belgian Congo. In this book, the British-American...
of the first books Korda bought was The Forest People by ColinTurnbull—a memoir of Turnbull's time living with the Mbuti Pygmies in the then Belgian Congo...
Soling and Hilbert David. The Ik were described in anthropologist ColinTurnbull's 1972 work The Mountain People as callous and indifferent. Ikland follows...
edge of the Ituri. They were also the subject of a well-known study by ColinTurnbull, The Forest People, which was published in 1962. The Ituri rainforest...
Warren Sanford Trapper John, M.D. (1981) – Sam M* A* S* H (1981) – ColinTurnbull Hill Street Blues (1981) – Charlie Weeks Bret Maverick (1981) – Terrible...
attended by Marshall Sahlins, Aram Yengoyan, George Peter Murdock, ColinTurnbull, Lewis Binford, and Julian Steward. The corresponding book, containing...
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull AC (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian former politician and businessman who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia...
These practices were studied thoroughly by British anthropologist ColinTurnbull, known primarily for his work with the tribe. "Molimo" is also the name...
Zaire Alima Song Traditional Mbuti of the Ituri Rainforest Recorded by ColinTurnbull and Francis S. Chapman in the Ituri Rainforest, Belgian Congo, circa...
Reginald Radcliffe-Brown W.H.R. Rivers Renato Rosaldo James C. Scott ColinTurnbull Victor Turner William Foote Whyte Erving Goffman Pierre Bourdieu Harriet...
The Ik is a 1975 play by Colin Higgins and Denis Cannan adapted from the 1972 book by ColinTurnbull about the Ik people titled The Mountain People. It...
Sudarkasa Michael Taussig Sharika Thiranagama Edward Burnett Tylor ColinTurnbull Victor Turner Bruce Trigger Karl Verner L. P. Vidyarthi Eduardo Viveiros...
trumpet like instrument. The molimo in the book, "The Forest People", by ColinTurnbull, is made out of metal pipe slightly bent in the middle. Molimos are...
Alexandrine Smith Michael Tenzer Laxmi Ganesh Tewari Anahit Tsitsikian ColinTurnbull Armas Otto Väisänen Richard Widdess Vinko Žganec Theodor W. Adorno Aristotle...
ColinTurnbull in 1959 while living in New York. They were married in 1960 and lived together until Towles' death of AIDS in 1988. In 1967, Turnbull and...
Jean-Claude Carrière, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 1975: Les Iks, by ColinTurnbull, adaptation Jean-Claude Carrière, Théâtre des Bouffes 1977: Ubu aux...
2013) 1924 – Paula Raymond, American model and actress (d. 2003) 1924 – ColinTurnbull, English-American anthropologist and author (d. 1994) 1925 – José Napoleón...
Indigenous and community conserved area The Mountain People, a book by ColinTurnbull 30 by 30 What is a Conservation Refugee, from Native Solutions to Conservation...
in Samoa by Margaret Mead 1921 Mary Douglas 1922 Sidney Mintz 1924 ColinTurnbull 1925 Kathleen Aberle Carlos Castaneda Frantz Fanon Ernest Gellner Claude...
(ISBN 1425488587) Tibet: Its History, Religion and People, co-written with ColinTurnbull in 1968 (ISBN 0671205595) Tibet: The Issue Is Independence – Tibetans-in-Exile...
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