Nigel Barley travels to Sulawesi in Indonesia to live among the
Torajan people, known for their spectacular buildings and elaborate
ancestor cults. At last he is following his own advice to students, to
do their anthropological fieldwork ‘somewhere where the inhabitants
are beautiful, friendly, where you would like the food.’ Barley
explores the island on horseback and in buses jammed to the gunnels,
and meets priests faithful to the old animist rituals. With his
customary wit, he takes the reader deep into this complex but
adaptable society.
Reversing the habitual patterns of anthropology, Barley then invites
four Torajan carvers to London to build a traditional rice barn at the
Museum of Mankind. The observer becomes the observed. Now, it is
Barley’s turn to explain the absurdities of an English city to his
bemused guests, in a glorious finale to a trilogy of anthropological
journeys that began with _The Innocent Anthropologist_.
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ISBN
9781780601533
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Eland Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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