Editing Colin Turnbull (section)

==Later years==
Late in life Turnbull took up the political cause of [[death row]] inmates. After his partner's death, Turnbull donated all his belongings to the [[United Negro College Fund]]. He donated all their research materials, most of which were the product of his career, to the [[College of Charleston]], insisting that the collection be known under Towles' name alone.<ref>Avery Research Center: [http://avery.cofc.edu/archives/Towles_Joseph_A.html Inventory of the Joseph A. Towles Papers, circa 1920s - 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009181042/http://avery.cofc.edu/archives/Towles_Joseph_A.html |date=9 October 2011 }}</ref>

In 1989, Turnbull moved to [[Bloomington, Indiana|Bloomington]], [[Indiana]], to participate in the building of [[Tibetan Cultural Center]] with his friend [[Thupten Jigme Norbu]], elder brother of the [[Tenzin Gyatso|14th Dalai Lama]]. Later Turnbull moved to [[Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh|Dharamsala]], India where he took the monks' vow of [[Tibetan Buddhism]], given to him by the [[Dalai Lama]]. Turnbull's partner, Joseph A Towles died of AIDS in 1988, and Turnbull had Towles's book "Nkumbi Initiation and Asa: Myth of Origin of the Blood Brotherhood Among the Mbo of the Ituri Forest" published posthumously. Turnbull himself died of AIDS in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://avery.cofc.edu/archives/Towles_Joseph_A.html|title=Inventory of the Joseph A. Towles Papers, circa 1920s - 2009|website=avery.cofc.edu|access-date=26 November 2009|archive-date=9 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009181042/http://avery.cofc.edu/archives/Towles_Joseph_A.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.colinturnbull.com/chronology.html |title=Chronology: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull |access-date=6 March 2009 |archive-date=10 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210051807/http://colinturnbull.com/chronology.html |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://tricycle.org/magazine/anthropologist-monk-colin-m-turnbull/|title=An Anthropologist Monk: Colin M. Turnbull|website=Tricycle: The Buddhist Review|author1=Tricycle }}</ref>