Turnbull, Colin (1924– )

US anthropologist, of English origin. He conducted fieldwork first in India (1949–51), then among the Mbuti pygmies of Zaire. He worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York (1959–69), then became professor at George Washington University in 1976. He wrote several books on Africa, including The Forest People (1961), Wayward Servants (1965), and The Human Cycle (1983). Turnbull was born in Harrow, England and studied at Oxford University (1947–64).