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

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

一本小绿皮书——《天真的人类学家-小泥屋笔记》 看完怪物史莱克的二个星期后，我又读到了一本绿油油封面的书，后者的搞笑程度绝对不输给可爱的绿耳朵怪物。 作者奈杰尔·巴利，英国人，牛津大学人类学博士，善良又幽默，此人决心前往非洲咯麦隆一个叫多瓦悠的小部落进行他的...  

特想问问作者巴利，他在写正经报告和这两部调侃日志时，哪一个更让他费尽心思？ 是不是他把那些按照人类学方法论所无法归纳和总结的事实全都放进这两部日志中了。跟我写“市场战略分析”一样，在星巴克坐个大半天，写在纸上给老板看的不知所云，写在心里的一堆客观事实却耗了三...  

作者是不可救药的乐观主义者，在那种情况下，没疯掉而且写了两本妙趣横生的书，真是佩服。翻译得很好，如：”笨得很，我居然趋前致意。“ 抄几句： 返乡的人类学者不期望英雄式欢迎，但是某些朋友的平常以待实在太过分了。返家后一个小时，一位朋友打电话给我，简短说：“我...  

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...  

一本小绿皮书——《天真的人类学家-小泥屋笔记》 看完怪物史莱克的二个星期后，我又读到了一本绿油油封面的书，后者的搞笑程度绝对不输给可爱的绿耳朵怪物。 作者奈杰尔·巴利，英国人，牛津大学人类学博士，善良又幽默，此人决心前往非洲咯麦隆一个叫多瓦悠的小部落进行他的...  

用户评价

中文版完全没有翻译出原版的笑点，我现在腹肌都笑出了！！！看的时候就画面感满满，甚至一度想到崔娃，读书真好啊

特别好笑。。我记得一个例子就是他在一个什么场合问一土著他们酋长是谁（总之就是类似的问题吧） 人家说：就是头上有羽毛的那个呀。完了他看了半天没看到羽毛 人说：那是因为他今天没有戴羽毛呀

funny

果然一边吐槽一边田野才是人类学者的真实工作状态。话是这么说，做还是要做

果然一边吐槽一边田野才是人类学者的真实工作状态。话是这么说，做还是要做