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In the Arms of Africa The Life of Colin M. Turnbull
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In the Arms of Africa The Life of Colin M. Turnbull Hardcover - 2000

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What Margaret Mead did for Samoa, Colin Turnbull did for Africa. An upper class Oxford-educated Englishman, Turnbull7;s life-long love affair with the African Pygmies made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and 6;70s. In an intimate portrait of a remarkable man--at various times a gold-miner, builder of 0;The African Queen,1; and anti-death penalty advocate--Grinker describes how Turnbull fell in love with a beautiful but poor African American named Joe Towles who became as much Turnbul7;s heroic creation as did the Pygmies. For 30 years, they lives as an openly gay, interracial couple in New York City and rural Virginia until Joe7;s death of AIDS in 1988. Devastated, Turnbull buried his own spirit in a second coffin laid next to Towles, gave away most of his money, and until his own death from AIDS in 1994, lived as a Buddhist monk tutored by the Dalai Lama7;s eldest brother. This is a compelling story of a celebrity scholar, his sexuality and his passion for a fiercely lived life.

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ON MOST MORNINGS IN 1957, the Scottish anthropologist Colin Macmillan Turnbull would wake up in his hut next to his young Mbuti assistant, Kenge, their legs and arms intertwined in the way that Mbuti men like to sleep with each other to stay warm.

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  • Title In the Arms of Africa The Life of Colin M. Turnbull
  • Author Roy Richard Grinker
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 354
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, New York
  • Date August 17, 2000
  • ISBN 9780312229467
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