The Innocent Anthropologist

Nigel Barley (born 1947 in Kingston upon Thames, England) is an anthropologist famous for the books he has written on his experiences. He studied modern languages at Cambridge University and completed a doctorate in social anthropology at Oxford University. He held a number of academic positions before joining the British Museum as an assistant keeper in the Department of Ethnography, where he remained until 2003.Barley's first book, The Innocent Anthropologist, was a witty and informative account of anthropological field work among the Dowayo people of Cameroon. Thereafter he published a number of works about Africa and Indonesia in such genres as travel, art, historical biography, and fiction.Barley has been twice nominated for the Travelex Writer of the Year Award. In 2002, he won the Foreign Press Association prize for travel writing.

出版者:Waveland Pr Inc

作者:Nigel Barley

页数:190

出版时间:2000-9-1

价格:USD 18.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781577661566

图书标签:人类学Anthropology民族志文化非洲英国英国文学人類學

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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.

读后感

“我在恩贡山有一座农场……”，这是凯伦布里克森在《走出非洲》(Out of Africa)里面的第一句话。我去夏威夷的时候，奥巴马的老乡们坚持说他是“俺们的总统”；但阅毕他的自传《我父亲的梦想》(Dreams from My Father)，发觉他对于自己肯尼亚亲戚的描述饱含深情；作为人类学...  

人类学家自十九世纪以来试图通过综合生物学和社会达尔文主义的理论描绘出人类文化与社会的蓝图。他们的形象要么是信仰坚定、走乡串野，寻找类似人类头骨之类的生物人类学家（biological anthropologist）；要么是睿智善谈、专注于资料研究，在跨学科领域备受瞩目的文化人类...  

人类学的罪与爱——《天真的人类学家》读书笔记 人类学与社会学、民族学互有交叉。在我看来，人类学往往以边远族群或早期民族为研究对象，而社会学侧重于成熟社会的运行状态和社会关系。民族学注重资料的收集与记录，带有史学味道；而人类学长于对这些资料、现象的解释。人类...  

（这是我06年7月写的文章，虽然不是直接评论这本书，但毕竟有些关系，对人类学有兴趣的人可以看看：） 为什么要去旅行？有一次我这样问自己。想了又想，得出的答案是“旅行是为了见识各地不同的风土人情和感受文化冲突”。因为对我来说人生的意义就在于不断拓宽自己心灵与视野...  

《天真的人类学家——小泥屋笔记》 英国人类学家巴利的在非洲喀麦隆某部落的考察研究笔记。可以当做充满幽默故事的游记来读。暴笑。  之所以适合旅行人士阅读，因为他多少解构了一把猎奇探险深入不毛等等的考察或旅行，可以让驴们不再事事的自诩怎么艰苦的去荒凉...  

用户评价

我们再有本事，再有本事，也没办法做到在不同的文化民族形态间一直来回切换。每一次转换，都充满疏离感。这本书真是精彩有趣。我想起我常说的自己的梦想职业，包括植物学家，考古学家，和记者，其实真正向往的，就是有这样的田野调查工作的一个身份啊。

确实是很有趣呢！以前觉得人类学家的田野调查超级酷，看了这本回忆录，发现这份工作真的是考验体力毅力，也很考验在一堆noise里找signal的能力（如何提炼出general models of interpretation和cultural symbolism）。绝对是science和art的结合！当然，还需要超级乐观的心态 :)

笑点奇多

怎么能有这么好看的书！从头笑到尾！好想转专业学人类学

怎么能有这么好看的书！从头笑到尾！好想转专业学人类学