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The Innocent Anthropologist, Notes from a Mud Hut

The Innocent Anthropologist, Notes from a Mud Hut

by Nigel Barley

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 190 PAGES

A smart, witty account of fieldwork among the Dowayo of northern Cameroon. You'll find no noble savages in British anthropologist Nigel Barley's refreshingly candid about the nature of fieldwork, its frustrations, absurdities and its impact on cultures. Recommended by Tahir Shah.  (CAF14, $17.95)


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