Colin Turnbull

...fragmentation is the result of extreme deprivation on a more complex and functional culture, an argument also made by Turnbull. Colin Turnbull wrote an ethnography about the Ik, titled The Mountain People. The book provides an...

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Colin Macmillan Turnbull (November 23 1924 - July 28 1994) was a famous 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...

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...1959, his autobiography, Tibet Is My Country as told to Heinrich Harrer and in 1968 Tibet: Its History, Religion and People, with Colin Turnbull. During the years, Norbu frequently lectured about the Tibetan situation at seminars throughout...

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...the So (aka Tepeth, Tepes; see Laughlin and Allgeier 1979). Laughlin's choice of the So was influenced by conversations he had with Colin Turnbull, who had worked with nearby peoples. Laughlin completed his dissertation, Economics and...

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...children and young adults Bernard Turnbull, Wales rugby union captain Charles Wesley Turnbull, governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands Colin Turnbull, British anthropologist and author David Turnbull, Progressive Conservative member of...

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...include liquindi, or water drumming, and instruments like the bow harp (ieta), ngombi (harp zither) and limbindi (a string bow). Colin M. Turnbull, an American anthropologist , wrote a book about the Pygmies, The Forest People, in 1965.

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...Ancestor. '' Anthropology became a lifelong inspiration, most obviously in "RainForest'' (1968), where he took ideas from Colin M. Turnbull's account of life among African pygmies. For many people, Mr. Cunningham was also a superlative...

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...characterised by their short height (below one and a half metres, or 59 inches, on average). They were the subject of a study by Colin Turnbull, The Forest People, in 1962. The Ituri Rainforest was first traversed by Europeans in 1887 by...

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...anthropology. In addition to Lee and DeVore, the symposium was attended by Marshall Sahlins, Aram Yengoyan, George Peter Murdock, Colin Turnbull, Lewis Binford, and Julian Steward. The corresponding book, of papers presented at the symposium,...

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...2008 9:25 PM Similar events have been recorded within human societies that have been driven to extremis. Anthropologist Colin Turnbull wrote a book called "The Mountain People" (1973) (0 330 24162 1) which relates: "The Ik, a tribe of...

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