# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-turnbull
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:27:43.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-turnbull"
name: "Colin Turnbull"
slug: "colin-turnbull"
description: "Colin Macmillan Turnbull was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People and The Mountain People, and one of the most significant influences on the postwar development of ethnomusicology."
tagline: "British American anthropologist (1924-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colin_Turnbull._(Lobsang_Ridgol)_holding_a_friend's_baby%2C_Gainesville%2C_Florida%2C_1993.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-11-23"
deathDate: "1994-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.2531328320802
  historical:           9.232328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "كولين تورنبول"
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    title: "Colin Turnbull"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Turnbull"
    title: "Colin Turnbull"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Turnbull"
    title: "Colin Turnbull"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Turnbull"
    title: "Colin Turnbull"
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    title: "Colin Turnbull"
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    title: "کولن ٹرن بل"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump