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Date Published: 2000-09-01
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1986
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Date Published: 1986
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Publisher: Penguin Books, Canada
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780140097498ISBN:014009749X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1986-01-30
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Description: Near Fine. No Jacket Issued. This is a reprint edition originally published by the British Museum. For those interested in anthropology this will be a great read. This is a soft cover Trade Paperback book. The condittion is Near Fine. The cover is very clean & bright. The binding is smooth and the pages are tight. The pages are clean and unmarked. No names or writing. 190 pages. read more
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1986
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Description: Ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stickers, stamps, barcode, etc. 190 pages. Green cloth-bound hardcover, 8.75" x 5.5", with humorous line drawings as chapter heads, map. The author's first experience of fieldwork was to study the Dowayo society in Cameroons, West Africa-he just survived this series of triumphs & disasters. read more
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 30/01/1986
ISBN-13:9780140095364ISBN:0140095365
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Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (P)
Date Published: 1992
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Date Published: 30/10/1986
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Date Published: 1986
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1986-01-30
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"Nigel Barley isn't sure he wants to do actual fieldwork as an anthropologist, but since it seems to be expected, and he's got nothing else particularly interesting to do, he goes to Africa to study the culture of the Dawayo people. The book is a mixture of memoir, cultural observation and self-deprecating humor. Barley lays bare the fairly selfish and sometimes wrong-headed motivations of anthropologists from the beginning of the book, but his fieldwork is clearly thorough and complete. The book is laugh-out-loud funny, but underneath it asks serious questions about the field of anthropology."
"A nice little ethnography of the Dowayo people of western Africa written by a very dryly hilarious Brit. His purpose, he states at the outset, is to write what it's really like to be an ethnographer, and to include all the absurdities and difficulties he experiences along the way. Since most of ethnography is confusion, frustration, illness and loneliness, this is very entertaining. One amusing passage:
"Faced with the impossibility of eating off the land, I decided to keep my own chickens. This, also, was not a success. Some I bought, some were given to me. Dowayo chickens, on the whole, are scrawny, wretched things; eating them is rather like eating an Airfix model of a Tiger Moth. They responded to treatment, however. I fed them on rice and oatmeal, which Dowayos who never feed them at all found a huge extravagance. One day, they began to lay. I had fantasies of being able to eat an egg every day. As I sat in my hut, gloating over my first day's haul, my assistant appeared in the doorway, an expression of bland self-satisfaction on his face. 'Patron,' he exclaimed, 'I just noticed the chickens were laying eggs so I killed them before they lost all their strength!'""
"COmo olvidarme de este libro!!! Para quien estudie sobre Africa o viaje, es imprescindible. Es un auténtico manual del verdadero antropólogo. Desopilante, entre otras, la escena en la que es acosado por una mujer en la puerta de una precaria ducha..."
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