The author, an anthropologist, describes his experiences in Indonesia, and offers his humorous observations on the human condition.

Not a Hazardous Sport

Politics & Social Sciences

NIGEL BARLEY

Anthropology

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Studying a little-known tribe in the Cameroons was the author's first experience in fieldwork - and very nearly his last. Nigel Barley set up home in a mud hut in order to study the customs and beliefs of the Dowayo people. He knew how fieldwork should be conducted, but, as he rapidly discovered, the theory did not take into account the elusive nature of the Dowayo society, which refused to conform to the rules. In this honest, funny and compulsive account of his first year in Africa, Dr. Barley - who survived boredom, disaster, illness and hostility - gives a wonderfully irreverent introduction to the life of a social anthropologist which nevertheless makes inspiring reading.

The Innocent Anthropologist : Notes from a Mud Hut

Social Sciences

Penguin

Native Land

Travel

Penguin??Books

Sir Stamford Raffles is known as a man of the Empire, a reforming colonialist and prodigal adventurer. Yet his brilliant career proved to be brief. What happened? Nigel Barley set out to find the reasons as he travelled, literally and imaginatively, through the lands that Raffles had known almost 200 years earlier: from Malacca to Java, Bali to Singapore. Nigel Barley's book - part biography, part the experiences of a contemporary traveller - brings a modern sensibility to veer on a major historical figure. The author also wrote "Native Land", "A Plague of Caterpillars", "Not a Hazardous Sport" and "The Coast".

The Duke of Puddledock: Travels in the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles (Penguin Travel Library)

Biographies & Memoirs

Travelers & Explorers

In the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles

A Plague of Caterpillars: A Return to the African Bush

A plague of caterpillars: A return to the African bush

Literature & Fiction

VIKING

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.
 Also by Nigel Barley and available from Waveland Press: Grave Matters: Encounters with Death around the World (ISBN 978-1577664310). Titles of related interest available from Waveland Press: DeVita, Stumbling toward Truth: Anthropologists at Work (ISBN 9781577661252) and Gardner-Hoffman, Dispatches from the Field: Neophyte Ethnographers in a Changing World (ISBN 9781577664512).

Community & Culture

Waveland Pr Inc.

Rogue Raider: The Tale of Captain Lauterbach, the Singapore Mutiny and the Audacious Battle of Penang

Monsoon Books

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