April 13, 2001

Parallel Lives: Ego Meets Anthropology in a Moving Memoir

By CAROLYN J. MOONEY

Maybe it's never too late to find a mentor -- or to be one.

Roy Richard Grinker spent the early years of his career tearing down the scholarship of the anthropologist Colin M. Turnbull, a brilliant, spirited, and controversial man who died of AIDS in 1994.

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Mr. Grinker,