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1	The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! new only from $18.29! \| first editions
2	Not a hazardous sport more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist Tiring of the horrors of West Africa, an area which he has spent much of his professional life studying, anthropologist Nigel Barley taught himself Indonesian and spent a number of months at the end of 1985 on the island of Sulawesi. Here he hoped to find unsullied cultures to study, unspoilt natives to investigate. Barley found plenty to wonder ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $47.30! \| first editions
3	White Rajah: A Biography of Sir James Brooke more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a party of local Dayaks had refused to furl their umbrellas in the presence of the Sultan. Brooke was an opportunist who, with the Sultan's backing, made ... see all copies from $5.08! new only from $10.44! \| first editions
4	I've Been Gone Far Too Long: Field Study Fiascoes and Expedition Disasters more books like this by Monique Borgerhoff-Mulder (Editor), Wendy Logsdon (Editor), Nigel Barley (Afterword by) add to wishlist From bush pilots and endangered species to Land Rover nightmares, these hair-raising tales will keep you up past dawn. This book is a tribute to the courage of an intrepid band of researchers who have risked all to bring home the truth. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.37! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Duke of Puddle Dock: Travels in the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Ceremony: An Anthropologist's Misadventures in the African Bush more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist A London anthropologist chronicles the low moments and the high comedy of his time in Africa with the Dowayo tribe and the area they live in. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.98! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Symbolic Structures: An Exploration of the Culture of the Dowayos more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist Many opposing theories have been elaborated by different anthropologists in an attempt to explain the nature of symbolism. In this work Nigel Barley uses a particular ethnographic case to examine the relevance and limitations of these existing theories and to develop a new alternative approach which draws on areas of linguistics and folkloristics ... see all copies from $7.51! new only from $25.65! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Grave Matters more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist The one universal fact of life is death. Yet different cultures define and react to death so variously that it ceases to be a common experience and becomes the foremost example of the exuberant inventiveness of human culture. GRAVE MATTERS examines humankind's deathways around the world. 16-page photo insert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.98! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Adventures in a Mud Hut: An Innocent Anthropologist Abroad more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist see all copies from $5.64! new only from $9.90! \| first editions
10	A Plague of Caterpillars: A Return to the African Bush more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! first editions
11	International AIDS-Prevention Posters more books like this by Nigel Barley, Felix Studinka (Foreword by) add to wishlist Ever since the AIDS epidemic struck, the health authority's task of educating the public has gained dramatically in significance. In many countries, the poster as a medium of information was unknown before the advent of AIDS so that a visual vocabulary first had to be developed for an issue saddled with ingrained taboos. A survey of current ... see all copies from $3.28! new only from $3.28!
12	Rogue Raider: The Tale of Captain Lauterbach and the Singapore Mutiny more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist Rogue Raider is a humorous fictionalized history set in Southeast Asia during the First World War, which centers on a lovable rogue in the form of Captain Julius Lauterbach of the German Imperial Navy and the ship that catapulted the Flashmanesque Lauterbach to accidental fame (and infamy), His Imperial Majesty's Emden. Follow the adventures of ... see all copies from $9.34! new only from $9.67! \| SVS
13	Dancing on the grave more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist This work takes a look at how different cultures around the world have handled death and given it its meaning. Some cultures, for example, Ancient Egypt, virtually bankrupted themselves to deal with the death of a single person; others simply pull down the roof on the corpse and walk away. The book shows how much of even the most exotic practices ... see all copies from $11.75! first editions
14	Smashing Pots: Works of Clay from Africa more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist In many parts of Africa marriage involves the making of new pots and funerals the smashing of old. Smashing Pots surveys the role of pottery in traditional and modern Africa, the technologies it calls into play and the extraordinary aesthetic effects it achieves. Nigel Barley shows how pottery is used in cultural thought and how it reflects, in ... see all copies from $22.95! first editions
15	Traumatische Tropen. Notizen Aus Meiner Lehmhã¼Tte by Nigel Barley add to wishlist see all copies from $12.81! new only from $23.07!
16	El Antropologo Inocente more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist see all copies from $35.84! new only from $142.87!
17	Smashing pots : feats of clay from Africa more books like this by Nigel Barley, British Museum. Trustees add to wishlist The making and breaking of pots is a central ritual in African society. To smash a pot is to mark the end of something, whether virginity, incest or life itself. In "Smashing Pots", Nigel Barley surveys the role of pottery in traditional and modern Africa, the technologies it calls into play and the extraordinary aesthetic effects it achieves. He ... see all copies from $100.44! first editions
18	Foreheads of the Dead: An Anthropological View of Kalabari Ancestral Screens more books like this by Nigel Barley, National Museum of African Art add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! first editions
19	Dancing on the grave : encounters with death more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist Seeking to merge the information of theologians and anthropologists, this book looks at the variety of ways in which cultures around the world deal with death and give it meaning. In some cultures, most famously Ancient Egypt, families would virtually financially ruin themselves in order to deal with the death of just one person. Other cultures ... see all copies from $18.68!
20	Native land more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist A unique look at the British from an anthropologist`s point of view. The author uses his skills to describe and analyze various aspects of British society, from weddings and church services to strip clubs and pub-crawls. see all copies from $7.17!
21	The coast. more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist A comic novel, set in the early 19th century, about the interplay between whites and blacks on the West African coast. The pious Reverend Truscott and his wife arrive full of hope about their mission to convert the natives - but find themselves embroiled in native politics and white chicanery. see all copies from $2.53! first editions
22	Die Raupenplage. Von Einem, Der Auszog, Ethnologie Zu Betreiben by Nigel Barley add to wishlist see all copies from $31.02!
23	Der Löwe Von Singapur: Eine Fernöstliche Reise Auf Den Spuren Von Thomas Stamford Raffles by Nigel Barley add to wishlist see all copies from $31.81! new only from $59.28!
24	Torajan Ricebarn more books like this by Nigel Barley add to wishlist see all copies from $12.97! new only from $12.97!
25	Traurige Insulaner by Nigel Barley add to wishlist see all copies from $16.50!

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