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Nome legal: Turnbull, Colin Macmillan
Data de nascimento: 1924-11-23
Data de falecimento: 1994-07-28
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: UK
USA (naturalized 1965)
Local de nascimento: London, England, UK
Local de falecimento: Kilmarnock, Virginia, USA
Causa da morte: AIDS
Educação: Oxford University (Ph.D|1964)
Banaras Hindu University (MA|1951)
Magdalen College, Oxford (BA)
Westminster School
Ocupações: anthropologist
curator
Relações: Towles, Joseph (partner)
Organizações: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
American Museum of Natural History
Virginia Commonwealth University

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The Mountain People por Colin M. Turnbull

Ethnography of the Ik, a small group of hunters in Uganda, Sudan and Kenya who were forbidden from traditional hunting grounds. Dramatic culture change and human values

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sweetteaarizona | 4 outras críticas | Jun 16, 2023 |

The Mountain People por Colin M. Turnbull

Anthropologist Turnbull studied a number of communities on the African continent. The main lesson of this particular one of the Ik people was that this is what happens in a culture that's in decline and its members had lost touch with their humanity. because of government policy changes, the Ik people had lost their source of sustenance and their ability to continue following their customary patterns. Although research methods in the field of anthropology don't allow for generalizing the structures of one particular community to any other, I still couldn't help seeing parallels to US society -- the self-centered preoccupation with one's personal survival, the indifference to the young, the ailing and the elderly, and ab inability or unwillingness to see life as anything more than physical survival. Some have branded this book as racist but I see it as a warning that we all have choices about how to live our lives.… (mais)

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dcvance | 4 outras críticas | May 4, 2021 |

The Forest People por Colin Turnbull

African pygmys, attested in ancient Egyptian and Greek texts as being nearly mythical inhabitants of central Africa, are described here in an Anthropological tome. I must re-read as I remember little from it.

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wickenden | 10 outras críticas | Mar 8, 2021 |

The LONELY AFRICAN (Touchstone Book) por Colin Turnbull

I first read this book about twenty some years ago, before I had ever met anyone from Africa. When I did meet AFrican students in college, it seemed to me that Turnbull had described something vital about their experience.

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kaitanya64 | Jan 3, 2017 |

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