Indigenous peoples -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Joseph A. Towles papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1077
Abstract
African American anthropologist Joseph Allen Towles (1937-1988) met British anthropologist Colin Macmillan Turnbull (1924-1994) in 1959. The two exchanged marriage vows in 1960 and they lived together in an interracial, homosexual relationship until Towles' death in 1988. Towles and Turnbull spent various periods of time in Africa, conducting fieldwork on the Mbuti, Mbo, and Ik peoples. Turnbull authored The Forest People, The...
Dates:
approximately 1920s-2009