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kingjason's review
5.0
What a wonderful book! Traditionally the anthropological book is crammed full of facts, whether important or not, there is no humour and it's as if the anthropologist is having to prove his worth. Nigel Barley's approach, the humour, the go-with-the-flow approach to travel and the bonding with those he meets makes this far easier to read. Right from the beginning you start to chuckle as Nigel explains this trip was inspired by his insurance company stating that anthropology is not a hazardous sport. Nigel does not shy away from any challenge, no matter how dangerous the situation is and with the bus drivers in Indonesia the situations can be pretty dire.
After travelling around for a while he meets up with a young lad called Johannis and finally he finds his focus for this book. He meets up with some brilliant characters, my favourite has to be Nenek, such a cheeky old man with his own wicked sense of humour. Whilst staying with these people Nigel gets inspired to organise the building of a rice barn at a museum in London, the book then becomes hilarious as anthropology is turned on it's head and the Torajans explore London and Nigel is constantly questioned by them. Their discovery of dog walkers in a park had me laughing my head off.
This is a well written, hilarious, at times moving book and the best thing I've read by Nigel Barley so far. It comes highly recommended by me.
Blog review: https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/not-a-hazardous-sport-by-nigel-barley/
After travelling around for a while he meets up with a young lad called Johannis and finally he finds his focus for this book. He meets up with some brilliant characters, my favourite has to be Nenek, such a cheeky old man with his own wicked sense of humour. Whilst staying with these people Nigel gets inspired to organise the building of a rice barn at a museum in London, the book then becomes hilarious as anthropology is turned on it's head and the Torajans explore London and Nigel is constantly questioned by them. Their discovery of dog walkers in a park had me laughing my head off.
This is a well written, hilarious, at times moving book and the best thing I've read by Nigel Barley so far. It comes highly recommended by me.
Blog review: https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/not-a-hazardous-sport-by-nigel-barley/
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