Colin Turnbull

Colin Turnbull was a British anthropologist who spent time and researched the BaMbuti pygmies, an African tribe. He was born in London, were later he studied philosophy and politics in the Oxford University. He later graduated from the Banaras Hindu University, Indian. He mastered on Indian philosophy and religion. Sometime later after graduating from the Banaras Hindu University, Turnbull traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, back then known as the Belgian Congo. He made this trip with Newton Beal, a school teacher he met in India. They both studied the BaMbuti pygmies, except the notorious tribe was not their main priority. He later acquired a job with the Hollywood producer Sam Spiegel building a boat for him. When he returned to Oxford he started to specialize in African anthropology. He took a trip back to Africa to study closely the Belgian Congo and Uganda. After all the hard work he graduated and achieved his anthropology doctorate for oxford. Later in his life he stood out for his book called "The Forest People" which studied the BaMbuti tribe. Turnbull made 6 trips to Africa in which many of his works in museums and universities were largely connected with these studies in Africa.

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