The Travels of Pong Barley
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1991.6.1
name: label: Names
content: Barley, Nigel
place: label: Place
content: Southeast Asia
label: Place
content: Indonesia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from the BBC in 1991.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Video recording (52 minutes, color sound)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1987
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1991.06
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film, which features anthropologist Nigel Barley as he sets off to do fieldwork on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, is a humorous and revealing look at the process of doing ethnography. Film includes ethnographic information on Torajan village organization and agriculture, woodcarving and architecture, and religious life.

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