The Innocent Anthropologist

Author : Nigel Barley
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478631023
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Innocent Anthropologist written by Nigel Barley and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2000-08-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When British anthropologist Nigel Barley set up home among the Dowayo people in northern Cameroon, he knew how fieldwork should be conducted. Unfortunately, nobody had told the Dowayo. His compulsive, witty account of first fieldwork offers a wonderfully inspiring introduction to the real life of a cultural anthropologist doing research in a Third World area. Both touching and hilarious, Barley’s unconventional story—in which he survived boredom, hostility, disaster, and illness—addresses many critical issues in anthropology and in fieldwork.

Author : Nigel Barley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780601519
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Plague of Caterpillars written by Nigel Barley and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayo circumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately left London for the village in northern Cameroon where he had lived as a field anthropologist for 18 months. The Dowayos are a mountain people that perform their elaborate, fascinating and fearsome ceremony at six or seven year intervals. It was an opportunity that was too good to miss, a key moment to test the balance of tradition and modernity. Yet, like much else in this hilarious book - the circumcision ceremony was to prove frustratingly elusive.This very failure, compounded by the plague of caterpillars of the book's title allows Nigel Barley to concentrate on everyday life in Dowayoland and the tattered remnants of an overripe French colonial legacy. In the meantime, witchcraft fills the Cameroonian air, a man is lied to by his own foot and an earnest German traveller shows explicit birth-control propaganda to the respectable tribespeople. Beneath the joy and shared laughter in this comic masterpiece lies skilful and wise reflection on the problems facing people of different cultures as they try to understand one another. A Plague of Caterpillars is the second in Barley's trilogy of anthropological journeys that began with The Innocent Anthropologist and ended with Not A Hazardous Sport (all published by Eland).

Author : Nigel Barley
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 9814358312
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island of Demons written by Nigel Barley and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many men dream of running away to a tropical island and living surrounded by beauty and exotic exuberance. Walter Spies did more than dream. He actually did it. In the 1920s and 30s, Walter Spies — ethnographer, choreographer, film maker, natural historian and painter — transformed the perception of Bali from that of a remote island to become the site for Western fantasies about Paradise and it underwent an influx of foreign visitors. The rich and famous flocked to Spies’ house in Ubud and his life and work forged a link between serious academics and the visionaries from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Charlie Chaplin, Noel Coward, Miguel Covarrubias, Vicki Baum, Barbara Hutton and many others sought to experience the vision Spies offered while Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, the foremost anthropologists of their day, attempted to capture the secret of this tantalizing and enigmatic culture. Island of Demons is a fascinating historical novel, mixing anthropology, the history of ideas and humour. It offers a unique insight into that complex and multi-hued world that was so soon to be swept away, exploring both its ideas and the larger than life characters that inhabited it.

Author : Philip R. DeVita
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478608552
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stumbling Toward Truth written by Philip R. DeVita and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2000-05-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essayists in Stumbling Toward Truth are anthropologists who have paused to share personal experiences that uncover important truths theyve learned by living with and trying to understand others. The twenty-nine poignant fieldwork tales collected here reveal much about what anthropology can teach about others as well as ourselves, the spirit of the ethnographic enterprise, and issues of crosscultural humanity and humaneness. Readers will discover from these once-private stories from around the world that much of what anthropologists learn about themselves and others is totally unanticipated. Oftentimes, cultural truths and unexpected realities are stumbled upon. These lessons, none for which social science training offered adequate preparation, remain perhaps the most memorable and critical of fieldwork.

Author : Barbara Gallatin Anderson
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478607726
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Around the World in 30 Years written by Barbara Gallatin Anderson and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten cultures! Barbara Gallatin Anderson brings to life a range of cultures from the tribal Hmong to a United States military base. With humor and a precision born of hands-on familiarity with the regions involved, she draws the reader into startlingly real identification with other peoples worlds: France, Denmark, Thailand, India, Morocco, Japan, Corsica, China, Russia, and the United States. Every chapter gives us insight into the ways we identify with basic anthropological themes, the challenges of applied fieldwork, and the impact of change. To a surprising extent the reader becomes the anthropologistwith all the highs and lows that are part of life as a cultural anthropologist.

Author : Napoleon A. Chagnon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684855119
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noble Savages written by Napoleon A. Chagnon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography.

Author : Nigel Barley
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 1912049015
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snow Over Surabaya written by Nigel Barley and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not many Glaswegian schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel Stewart Walker did just that. Under a multitude of different names – ‘K’tut Tantri’ and ‘Surabaya Sue’ being the best known – this Scottish-born, self-proclaimed Hollywood scriptwriter joined in the struggle for Indonesian independence after the Second World War and broadcast its revolutionary message to the world on Rebel Radio. But she did more and smuggled arms, and probably drugs, to help finance the new Republic and experienced bloody battle in the November 1945 British attack on Surabaya that some have seen as a war crime. She went on to become an intimate of the revolutionary leaders, Bung Tomo and Soekarno among them, and finally lived to see Indonesia take its place amongst the free nations of the world. Surabaya Sue is virtually unknown in the West and, even in Indonesia, there have always been doubts about her version of events that many have dismissed outright as a blatant mixture of outrageous fantasy and dishonest omissions. Snow over Surabaya happily embraces those doubts and brings a new, spirited account of her adventures in that tempestuous world.

Author : Nigel Barley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814908808
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in a Mud Hut written by Nigel Barley and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the misadventures of a novice anthropologist trying to study the culture of the Dowayo people of the Cameroons

Author : Andrew Gardner
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478608730
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispatches from the Field written by Andrew Gardner and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2006-04-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penned by advanced graduate students amidst their dissertation fieldwork, these provocative essays capture the challenges and intricacies of that anthropological rite of passage. The collections authors frankly portray the mistakes they made in the field, their struggle to analyze the events unfolding before their eyes, the psychological and emotional frustration seemingly endemic to doing ethnography, and the ethical complexities of researching living people. The authors present these essays not as models of ideal fieldwork or as a series of lessons about how to overcome potential hurdles one faces in the field, but rather as a window into the complexities of being an ethnographer in the contemporary world. Against a backdrop of subject populations increasingly informed about global relations of power and, more specifically, informed about the topography of American imperialism, these humanistic essays vividly reflect recent shifts in both the focus and methods of anthropological research, as well as the dilemmas underlying the construction of anthropological knowledge. They are meant to spark discussion and debate. While tailored to an audience relatively new to ethnographic fieldwork (and intended as a teaching tool), this collection should appeal to anthropologists and ethnographers at all points in their career.

Author : Nigel Barley
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 9814423475
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toraja written by Nigel Barley and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1985, Dr. Nigel Barley, senior anthropologist at The British Museum, set off for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi in search of the Toraja, a people whose culture includes headhunting, transvestite priests and the massacre of buffalo. In witty and finely crafted prose, Barley offers fascinating insight into the people of Sulawesi and he recounts the tale of the four Torajan woodcarvers he invites back to London to construct an Indonesian rice barn in The British Museum. Previously published as "Not a Hazardous Sport".