In the Arms of Africa
Subtitle: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780312229467
Subjects: Cultural And Social Anthropology; Homosexuality; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Adventurers & Explorers; Specific Groups - Male Gay Studies; Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists; Anthropology - General; Social Scientists & Psychologists; Africa; Biography; Gay anthropologists; Mbuti (African people); United States
First sentence: ON MOST MORNINGS IN 1957, the Scottish anthropologist Colin Macmillan Turnbull would wake up in his hut next to his young Mbuti assistant, Kenge, their legs and arms intertwined in the way that Mbuti men like to sleep with each other to stay warm.