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.

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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...  

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终于读完啦！！！没有100%读懂因为好多生词懒得一个个查直接跳过了，可能影响了一些读后感错过了不少笑点吧。但总的来说还是很有趣的

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终于读完啦！！！没有100%读懂因为好多生词懒得一个个查直接跳过了，可能影响了一些读后感错过了不少笑点吧。但总的来说还是很有趣的