biography
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Turnbull, Colin (Macmillan)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1924–94)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in Harrow, NW Greater London, UK. He studied at Oxford, then carried out fieldwork, first in India (1949–51) and later among the Mbuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). He worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City (1959–69), and was professor at George Washington University from 1976. He wrote many books on social change and relationships in Africa, including The Forest People (1961) and The Human Cycle (1983). |
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