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Colin Turnbull was born on 23 November, 1924 in London, England, is a British-American anthropologist (1924–1994). Discover Colin Turnbull's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 23 November 1924
Birthday 23 November
Birthplace London, England
Date of death 28 July, 1994
Died Place Virginia, US
Nationality Uganda

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1924

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.

Turnbull was born in London and educated at Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied politics and philosophy.

During World War II he was in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve after which he was awarded a two-year grant in the Department of Indian Religion and Philosophy, Banaras Hindu University, India, from which he graduated with a master's degree in Indian Religion and Philosophy.

1937

Turnbull's partner, Joseph Allen Towles, was born in Senora, Virginia, on August 17, 1937.

1951

In 1951, after his graduation from Banaras, Turnbull traveled to the Belgian Congo (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) with Newton Beal, a schoolteacher from Ohio he met in India.

Turnbull and Beal first studied the Mbuti pygmies during this time, though that was not the goal of the trip.

An "odd job" Turnbull picked up while in Africa at this time was working for the Hollywood producer Sam Spiegel.

Spiegel hired Turnbull to assist in the construction and transportation of a boat needed for his film.

This boat was the African Queen, which was used for the feature film The African Queen (starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn; 1951).

After his first trip to Africa, Turnbull traveled to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, where he worked as a geologist and gold miner for a year, before he went back to school to obtain another degree.

1954

Upon returning to Oxford in 1954, Turnbull began specializing in the anthropology of Africa.

1957

He remained in Oxford for two years before another field trip to Africa, finally focusing on the Belgian Congo (1957–58) and Uganda.

In 1957 he moved to New York City to pursue a career as an actor and writer.

1959

He met Turnbull in 1959 and they exchanged marriage vows the following year.

1961

He first gained prominence with his book The Forest People (1961), a study of the Mbuti people.

His recording of Music of the Rainforest Pygmies, recorded in 1961, was released on CD by Lyrichord Discs, Inc. His recording of a Zaire pygmy girls' initiation song was used on the Voyager Golden Record.

1964

After years of fieldwork, he finally achieved his anthropology doctorate from Oxford in 1964.

1965

Turnbull became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1965, after he moved to New York City to become curator in charge of African Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in 1959.

He later resided in Lancaster County, and was on staff in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Virginia.

Other professional associations included corresponding membership of Royal Museum for Central Africa and a fellowship in the British Royal Anthropological Institute.

From 1965 to 1967, Turnbull and Towles conducted fieldwork among the Ik of Northern Uganda in Africa.

1970

In the Congo in 1970, they conducted fieldwork on the Nkumbi circumcision initiation ritual for boys and the Asa myth of origin among the Mbo of the Ituri forest.

1972

In 1972, having been commissioned to come up with an explanation and solution to the difficulties experienced by the Ik people, the controversial The Mountain People was published.

The Ik were a hunter-gatherer tribe who had been forced to stop moving around ancestral lands, through the seasons, because it now involved the three national borders of Uganda, Kenya and Sudan.

Forced to become stationary in Uganda, and without a knowledge base and culture for survival under such conditions, they failed to thrive, even to the point of starvation and death.

The Mountain People was later adapted into a theatrical work by playwright Peter Brook.

Some of Turnbull's recordings of Mbuti music were commercially released, and his works inspired other ethnomusicological studies, such as those of Simha Arom and Mauro Campagnoli.

1979

In 1979, they traveled studying the concept of tourism as pilgrimage.

1983

Towles criticised Turnbull's semi-autobiographical work The Human Cycle (1983), which omitted all references to their relationship.

Turnbull arranged for Towles' research to be published posthumously.

1985

Bernd Heine exemplifies the strong reaction evoked by Turnbull's evaluation of the Ik in a 1985 article.

Using information gained 20 years after Turnbull's researches, he provided new information that appeared to discredit the portrayal of the Ik provided by Turnbull.

1988

Turnbull's partner, Joseph A Towles died of AIDS in 1988, and Turnbull had Towles book "Nkumbi Initiation and Asa: Myth of Origin of the Blood Brotherhood Among the Mbo of the Ituri Forest" published posthumously.

1989

In 1989, Turnbull moved to Bloomington, Indiana, to participate in the building of Tibetan Cultural Center with his friend Thupten Jigme Norbu, elder brother of the 14th Dalai Lama.

Later Turnbull moved to Dharamsala, India where he took the monks' vow of Tibetan Buddhism, given to him by the Dalai Lama.

1993

It appeared in 1993 as Nkumbi initiation ritual and structure among the Mbo of Zaïre and as Asa: Myth of Origin of the Blood Brotherhood Among the Mbo of the Ituri Forest, both in Annales of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium), vol. 137.

Late in life Turnbull took up the political cause of death row inmates.

After his partner's death, Turnbull donated all his belongings to the United Negro College Fund.

He donated all their research materials, most of which were the product of his career, to the College of Charleston, insisting that the collection be known under Towles' name alone.

1994

Turnbull himself died of AIDS in 1994.