The Mountain People by Colin M Turnbull
In The Mountain People, Colin M. Turnbull describes the dehumanization of the Ik, African tribesmen who in less than three generations have deteriorated from being once-prosperous hunters to scattered bands of hostile, starving people whose only goal is individual survival. Sad, disturbing, and eloquently written, The Mountain People is a moving meditation on human nature, our capacity for goodness, and the fragility of human society.Colin M.Turnbull is a Connecticut-based author who was born in London. He attended Westminster School and Oxford's Magdalen College, where he majored in philosophy and politics. After serving in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during WWII, he received a two-year research grant at Banaras Hindu University in India's Department of Indian Religion and Philosophy, and then went to Oxford to study anthropology with a focus on Africa. He has traveled to Africa on five separate occasions, the most recent of which was spent primarily in the Republic of Zare. He drew material for his first book, The Forest People, a three-year chronicle of his time with the Pygmies of Zare, from these excursions.
Turnbull was a professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he taught anthropology. He is a Corresponding Member of Le Musée Royal d'Afrique Centrale and a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780671217242 |
| ISBN 10 | 0671217240 |
| Title | The Mountain People |
| Author | Colin M Turnbull |
| Series | Touchstone Book |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Picador |
| Year published | 1974-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 309 |
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