Colin Turnbull

Colin Turnbull was born in London, England in 1924. Colin studied philosophy, polotics, and music in Magdalen college at oxford university. He also studied in India, he returned to Oxford and studied anthropology, specialized in American field. On his trip in 1951 was when he first visited the Pygmies. He became very intrestes in the African tribes, he studied native language, and music.He died of pneumonia at the age of 69. Turnbull was an unconventional scholar who rejected neutrality. He idealized the BaMbuti and reviled the Ik, and described the latter as lacking any sense of altruism, in that they force their children out of their homes at the age of three, and gorge on whatever occasional excesses of food they might find until they became sick, rather than save or share. Turnbull gained prominence after hi wrote the book The Forest People in 1962 it was a detailed study about the Mbuti Pygmies. The Pygmies were also known as the mountain people.  His partner in his study who  helped him persever  was called Dr. Joseph Towels they has an opened gay relationship. Turnbull retreated to a Buddist monastery he lived there after his partner died, because both had complications with AIDS.