The Innocent Anthropologist
Douban
Notes from a Mud Hut
Nigel Barley
résumé
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.
contents
1 The Reason Why 7
2 Be Prepared 14
3 To the Hills 19
4 Honi soit qui Malinowski 28
5 Take me to your Leader 37
6 Is the sky clear for you? 51
7 'O Cameroon, O Cradle of our Fathers' 68
8 Rock Bottom 99
9 Ex Africa semper quid nasty 116
10 Rites and Wrongs 122
11 The Wet and the Dry 145
12 First and Last Fruits 166
13 An English Alien 183
