Box 44

Scope and Contents Includes 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks containing data created by Joseph Towles and Colin Turnbull. Note: files have not been accessed by archival staff; descriptions are based on notations on disks. Presumably includes copies of Towles' diaries (1960-1983), Turnbull's commentary on them, and a large amount of Towles' personal and professional data, including lectures and exams on anthropology, religion, and kinship (1986-1988). Also contains field notes and papers on nkumbi and the...

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Includes five VHS tapes, three taped at the College of Charleston, 1986. Includes discussion of field research covering first impressions of Africa, the Ik, and an address to sociology class on Death and Dying. Also includes a 1975 video of Turnbull's discussion of his experiences among the Ik and a video of Turnbull's lecture at Avery Research Center, 1991.

Scope and Contents Includes home videos in 8 mm and super 8 mm film (color, silent, and each about 3 minutes in length) labeled F1-F6 by Turnbull with notations on covers, circa 1960s-1970s. User DVD copy of merged films, consecutively filmed, available in repository. Folder 1 includes shots of home in Lancaster, Virginia; Towles washing his car; and New York City scenes (presumably filmed from their apartment) of people walking. Folder 2 includes Towles and his family in Virginia eating barbeque; shots of...