The Innocent Anthropologist Notes from a Mud Hut
The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut by Nigel Barley is a new edition published by Penguin in 1986, featuring 189 pages in English. This book presents Barley’s experiences as a new anthropologist who sought firsthand knowledge after years of academic training. His two-year stay with the Dowayo people in the Cameroons from 1978 to 1980 offers a humorous and insightful perspective on the challenges faced by academics in understanding and interacting with different cultures.
Readers will find a blend of travel writing and social commentary as Barley critiques the traditional approaches of seasoned field-workers. The narrative explores themes relevant to social science and ethnic studies, particularly in the context of American and Native American studies. Through his engaging storytelling, Barley highlights the complexities of cultural interaction and the often humorous misunderstandings that arise, making this edition a notable contribution to the field of anthropology.
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Nigel Barley was a ?new anthropologistOCO, one of the younger generation of academics 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 nativesOCO, 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 academics attempting to impose their rules and their order on West African life.”
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