The Innocent Anthropologist

Posted on 03 January 2018 by Nigel Barley

Note This book was originally published as Not a Hazardous Sport 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. Best Download [ The Innocent Anthropologist ] By [ Nigel Barley ] – kino-fada.fr A bizarrely and unexpectedly funny account of anthropological fieldwork in Cameroon Not that we get to laugh at the ceramics of another culture but rather the misadventures of Europeans in west Africa The author visits a pagan tribe in the back lands the Dowayo He finds a French speaking Christian who works as his translator disapproving naturally of the pagan ways of his fellow tribesmen but Nigel Barley s first problem is getting hold of a beer bottle at the time in Came...Un antropologo che guarda con occhio ironico e a volte decisamente comico e critico il proprio lavoro sul campo Con pieno rispetto e un pizzico di tenerezza del popolo che andato a studiare , scoprendo disagi e pregiudizi e senza negarli i...If you enjoy this type of humour which I do, obviously , which I guess is a self deprecating British humour.Barley starts his book by ridiculing fieldwork, and academic life in general, while explaining that fieldwork is the natural progression from doctorates based on library research This, along with selecting a location, takes a chapter, and forms the basis for the full extent of the book.In selecting a location, Barley had narrowed it down to Portuguese Timor, until just as the academic If you enjoy this type of humour which I do, obviously , which I guess is a self deprecating British humour.Barley starts his book by ridiculing fieldwork, and academic life in general, while explaining that fieldwork is the natural progression from doctorates based on library research This, along with selecting a location, takes a chapter, and forms the basis for the full extent of the book.In selecti...Nigel Barley se fue a Camer n y en un a o tuvo hepatitis, malaria y unos par sitos que ponen huevos bajo las u as, se tratan rebanando trozos de carne con una navaja y parecen bastante asquerosetes Perdi 18 kg y los dos dientes de delante Tambi n pas meses sin hablar con nadie en frases completas y se aburri normal Su vida sexual fue inexistente, por suerte porque sino seguramente habr a vuelto con gonorrea, clamidia y s filis No creo que hubiese sido capaz de resistirlo Resistirlo yo, Nigel Barley se fue a Camer n y en un a o tuvo hepatitis, malaria y unos par sitos que ponen huevos bajo las u as, se tratan rebanando trozos de carne con una navaja y parecen bastante asquerosetes Perdi 18 kg y los dos dientes de delante Tambi n pas meses sin hablar con nadie en frases completas y se aburri normal Su vida sexual fue inexistente, por suerte porque sino seguramente habr a vuelto con gonorrea, clamidia y s filis No creo que hubiese sido capaz de resistirlo Resistirlo yo, quiero decir, porque ya estaba en plan los incisivos noooooooo Y con flashbacks del nico otro libro que recuerdo con extracci n de incisivos, que es los Miserables Fantine vive de la pros...Much has been written on the excellence of bats navigation equipment It is all false Tropical bats spend their entire time flying into obstacles with a horrible thudding noise They specialize in slamming into walls and falling, fluttering onto your face As my own piece of equipm...This is an utterly hilarious account of an anthropologist going off into his first field assignment in Cameroon He has a wittiness that reminds me, oddly enough, of the way that Hugh Grant s characters often poke fun at themselves in movies It s totally British, totally honest, and utterly candid.I kept wanting to underline entire paragraphs, for going back and laughing at them again later Here are a few of my favorites Young anthropologists know all about missionaries before they ve met any This is an utterly hilarious account of an anthropologist going off into his first field assignment in Cameroon He has a wittiness that reminds me, oddly enough, of the way that Hugh Grant s characters often poke fun at themselves in movies It s totally British, totally honest, and utterly candid.I kept wanting to underline entire paragraphs, for going back and laughing at them again later Here are a few of my favorites Young anthropologists know all about missionaries before they ve met any They plan a large role in the demonology of the subject, beside self righteous administrators and exploitative colonials The only intellectually respectable response to a tin rattled in one s face by someone collecting for missionary work is a reasoned refutatio...Als junger Ethnologe unterrichtet Nigel Barley an einer britischen Universit t, bis ihm ein Kollege die entscheidende Frage stellt Warum machst Du dann nicht Feldforschung Schlie lich sind die Feldforscher doch die Obergurus der Ethnologie Kaum ist die Entscheidung gef llt und das zu untersuchende Volk, die Dowayo im n rdlichen Kamerun, ausgew hlt, holt die B rokratie Barley wieder auf den Boden der Tatsachen und jegliche Ethnologenromantik ist schnell dahin Wie wird es ihm in Afrika ergeh Als junger Ethnologe unterricht...In the early 80s, a British anthropologists finds himself in the middle of nowhere Africa, in the small town of Poli, Cameroon in order to study the Dowayo tribe Twenty four years later, a California Peace Corps volunteer yours truly finds herself in the same town What has changed Not much Still one dirt road Still pervasive corruption Still intense frustration Still intense happiness and belonging.This book and its companion Ceremony were left in my mud hut but I had luckily had s In the early 80s, a British anthropologists finds himself in the middle of nowhere Africa, in the small town of Poli, Cameroon in order to study the Dowayo tribe Twenty four years later, a California Peace Corps volunteer yours truly finds herself in the same town What has changed Not much Still one dirt road Still pervasive corruption Still intense frustration Still intense happiness and belonging.This book and its companion Ceremony were left in my mud hut but I had luckily had some modern amenities, like antique plumbing and electricity in Poli by the previous volunteer I first devoured it in 1994, the first year of my Peace Corps service I learned a lot from Barley and has many aha moments I also learned that I knew personally several people in the book I recently opened it up again because Poli never reall...This is the most entertaining book I ve read all year And I spent my vacation reading P.G Wodehouse.This book is an anthropological monograph This is apparently an entire genre of literature, and this is the first one of them that I ve ever read The idea is that you go out to some third world village that nobody knows anything about, you live among the people, and then you come back and write about it.Barley comes at this from a bit of an angle F...Este es un libro que me sorprendi bastante Cuando mi profesor de M todos de etnograf a y dise o nos dijo que bamos a leer un libro de antropolog a yo me esperaba una lectura pesada, llena de datos y bastante tediosa Sin embargo, me encontr con una joya Nigel Barley, el autor de este libro, es un antrop logo ingl s que, cansado de su vida como maestro, decide pasar al trabajo de campo de la antropolog a y viajar a frica para estudiar por un a o a una peque a poblaci n ind gena que nadie co Este es un libro que me sorprendi bastante Cuando mi profesor de M todos de etnograf a y dise o nos dijo que bamos a leer un libro de antropolog a yo me esperaba una lectura pesada, llena de datos y bastante tediosa Sin embargo, me encontr con una joya Nigel Barley, el autor de este libro, es un antrop logo ingl s que, cansado de su vida como maestro, decide pasar al trabajo de campo de la antropolog a y viajar a frica para estudiar por un a o a una peque a poblaci n ind gena que nadie conoce lo dowayos.Despu s de mucha preparaci n y recibir los pe...

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03 January 2018

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