The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut
Aug 2000 · Waveland Press
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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.
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Jorge Alejandre Sánchez
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June 22, 2016
It makes you laugh and think. Even learn and, especially, put your way of life in perspective.
Dave Townsend
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March 30, 2022
A really enjoyable book, pleasantly rambling through the trails of an anthropological field worker.
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