martes, 31 de agosto de 2010

Colin Turnbull

Colin Turnbull was borned in London and studied philosophy and politics in Oxford. He later graduated from the Banaras Hindu university in india witha degree on indian Religion and Philosophy. he then traveled to the republic of Congo to study the BaMbuti pygmies with Newton Beal an ohio school teacher he met in India.

He went to school at the Westminster School. When he ended his studies he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War 2. After Turnbull's experience with the pygmies he became one of the most famous intelectuals of 1960 and 1970. Through his trips in africa he fell in love with an african american named Joe Towles. for 30 years the lived as an open gay couple in New York city and then in Virginia until towels died of AIDS in 1988. After turnbull's lost he gave awaay most of his money and lived as a Buddhist monk tutored by Dalai Lama's older brother, until his death from AIDS in 1994.


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