Nigel Barley returns to Cameroon on hearing that the elaborate and
fearsome Dowayo circumcision ceremony, performed at six or seven year
intervals, is about to take place. Yet, like much else in this
hilarious book by the author of _The Innocent Anthropologist_, the
circumcision ceremony proves frustratingly elusive, partly because of
an extraordinary plague of black, hairy caterpillars.
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.
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ISBN
9781780601540
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Eland Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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