He was a british anthropologist from the british upper class, he was openly gay and was famous in the 1960s-1970s for his critical and great observation on the Bambuti tribe in africa, in this he discovered something very crutial with perception. He graduated from the Magdalen College in Oxford, he later dies from AIDS and pneumonia. He studied in a prestigious school until he finished high school, a turning point in his early life was when he watched a friend get raped by other boys, and since then he swore to become successful and defend weak and unable people. Colin Turnbull participated in World War II serving in the British Navy. He is famous for two of his publications, The Forest People and The Mountain People. He was also famous for the music he recorded from the Mbuti pygmies, and when he published them they became widely known and really appreciated by the musicians.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Colin_Turnbull
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/01/obituaries/colin-m-turnbull-69-anthropologist-and-author.html
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