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.
发表于2024-05-09
The Innocent Anthropologist 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
书读到一半时,不慎弄丢了。隔了两个月找回来重新读,仍旧喜欢的不得了。之前有人抱怨翻译和作者的人品,书不在手,也没法反驳。现在终有机会。 翻译没有问题,这是比较负责的翻译。作者的英式冷幽默功夫了得,翻译忠实地重现了作者的语气甚至双关语。不得不说台湾编辑的认真,...
评分有这样一本书,你在无聊时候随手翻起,忘了从哪页看起,不一会你就读到一段好笑的文字,然后,又翻了几页,你已然兴奋的如发现了一个新大陆,于是你老老实实又迫不及待的从头看起,不想错漏了每一个字,每一页纸。 《天真的人类学家》就是这么对待我的。 是书讲述了一个英国...
评分(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...
评分记得上完第一节人类学课程后,身边的同学普遍有一种想法,转系到人类学系跟老师做田野调查去。听着老师在课堂上的描述,人类学家到处去体验全新不同的生活方式,这是多么丰富精彩的人生呀!估计老师也猜透了我们的心思,在课堂上一再强调,田野调查真的不如大家想象中有...
评分奈吉尔·巴利和列维-斯特劳斯一样,都是不情不愿地开始一段田野考察之旅,完事儿却写了一本精彩的书。只不过列维-斯特劳斯写的是《忧郁的热带》,巴利写的是——“抓狂的热带”。 《天真的人类学家》很逗乐,典型的英式幽默层次不穷。巴利很有文采,我觉得他如果不做人类学家,...
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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.
读完了,超满足。太!好!笑!了!
评分看完只觉得也太惨了。。
评分看完只觉得也太惨了。。
评分确实是很有趣呢!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 :)
评分读完了,超满足。太!好!笑!了!
The Innocent Anthropologist 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书