6.1. Data Disks, 1980s-1990s

The audio-visual series contains professional and personal audio and film footage as well as other magnetic media. It includes data disks from Towles and Turnbull's computer presumed to contain material mostly available in hard copy throughout the collection but also Turnbull's diaries (1988-1989), a copy of the unpublished Lover and Beloved, his notes on prison research, Buddhism, and correspondence (1990). Professional videos consist of anthropology lectures (1975-1991) given by Towles and Turnbull, and film studies (1954-1972) in which Towles and Turnbull document the Ik (1964-1965) and the Mbuti (1954 and edited 1971-1972) in the field. Videos of their personal life (1973-1978) reflect their family and domestic life in Virginia. Audio files consist of cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes of Mbuti songs and interviews that reportedly correspond to video footage.