The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut by Nigel Barley

The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut

The Innocent Anthropologist #1

Nigel Barley

190 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction biography reflective medium-paced

Description

Studying a little-known tribe in the Cameroons was the author’s first experience in fieldwork – and very nearly his last. Nigel Barley set up home in a mud hut in order to study the customs and beliefs of the Dowayo people. He knew how fieldwork s...

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