description: 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 Grave Encounters with Death around the World (ISBN 978-1577664310). Titles of related interest available from Waveland DeVita, Stumbling toward Anthropologists at Work (ISBN 9781577661252) and Gardner-Hoffman, Dispatches from the Neophyte Ethnographers in a Changing World (ISBN 9781577664512).
language: English
title: The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes From a Mud Hut
titlecomplete: The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes From a Mud Hut
genres: Anthropology, Social Science, Biography, Cameroon, Science, Nonfiction, Memoir, Humor, Travel, Africa
ratings_count: 2859
series: The Innocent Anthropologist
publisher: Penguin Books