Who was Colin Turnbull? We know he was the man who spent time observing the BaMbuti tribe of Pygmies in central Africa - but what else do we know?

Well, Colin Turnbull was born in Novembre 23, 1924, and died July 18, 1994. He was a worldly famous British- American Anthropologist. He wrote "The Forest People" and also "The Mountain People". One of the books was about the mbuti pygmies of Zaire, and the other one was on the lk people of Uganda. He was a pioneer in the field of ethnomusicology. he studied his first grade of school in Westminster School, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford for his college degree on politics and philosophy. In World War II he joined Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, there he was granted a two year study opportunity to study in Banras Hindu University, for a degree on Indian Religeon, and Philosophy. After that, in 1951 he traveled to the Republic of Congo. He went with Newton Beal, who was a Ohio college teacher he meet in india

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