Nigel Barley was a 'new anthropologist', one of the younger generation
of academi whose learning and research had been acquired in
institutes, research departments, from academic journals and
university libraries. But after suffering years of gentle put-downs
from leathery old field-workers, their 'teeth permanently gritted from
years of dealing with natives', he was determined to gain his own
experience. The two years he spent among the Dowayo people in the
Cameroons (1978-80) produced a comic masterpiece of travel writing,
The Innocent Anthropologist, which remains as honest, as funny and as
compelling a read as when it was first penned - and a devastating
critique of academi attempting to impose their rules and their order
on West African life.
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ISBN
9781780600222
Publisert
2016
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Eland Publishing
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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