Colin Turnbull
Colin Turnbull | |
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Colin Turnbull holding a friend's baby, Gainesville, Florida, 1993 | |
| Born | 23 November 1924 London, England |
| Died | 28 July 1994 (aged 69) Virginia, U.S. |
| Nationality | British, American |
| Citizenship | British, later American |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford Banaras Hindu University |
| Known for | The Forest People, The Mountain People |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Anthropology Ethnomusicology |
Colin Macmillan Turnbull (23 November 1924 – 28 July 1994) was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People (on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire) and The Mountain People (on the Ik people of Uganda), and one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.