Colin Turnbull

Early life:Colin lived from November 23, 1924 (London) until July 28, 1994. He studied in Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford. There he studied politics and philosophy. He later went to Banaras Hindu University in India to study Indian religion and philosophy.

Professional life:Colin became a famous British-American anthropologist. He came to public attention with two popular books: The Forest People which was on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire, and The Mountain People based on the Ik people of Uganda; and also one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.

Time working in Africa:Colin later became an expert in Pygmy tribes; this caused him to become very interested in African tribes. He grabbed his motorcycle and left to Africa to continue his studies on the Pygmies in which he was so deeply interested in. He visited African Pygmies six times where he studied their language, religion and native music. With all the experience with the African tribes, Colin was able to write many documentaries and works that focused on African tribes especially the Pygmies. Colin later fell in love with a poor African man named Joe Towels, starting an open gay relationship, moving in with him in New York.

Later life:Towels later died of AIDS, (after analyzing several rituals of the African tribes) making Turnbull want to become a Buddhist monk. Turnbull later died of pneumonia in 1994.