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Not a Hazardous Sport

Name: Not a Hazardous Sport
Brand: Eland Publishing
SKU: 40787398
Price: 10.54 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Nigel Barley
ISBN: 9781780601533

Misadventures of an Anthropologist in Indonesia

Nigel Barley

Language

English

E-book Adobe ePub DRM

Libristo code: 40787398

Publishers Eland Publishing, November 2018

Nigel Barley travels to Sulawesi in Indonesia to live among the Torajan people, known for their spe... Full description

Libristo code: 40787398

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Nigel Barley travels to Sulawesi in Indonesia to live among the Torajan people, known for their spectacular buildings and elaborate ancestor cults. At last he is following his own advice to students, to do their anthropological fieldwork 'somewhere where the inhabitants are beautiful, friendly, where you would like the food.' Barley explores the island on horseback and in buses jammed to the gunnels, and meets priests faithful to the old animist rituals. With his customary wit, he takes the reader deep into this complex but adaptable society.Reversing the habitual patterns of anthropology, Barley then invites four Torajan carvers to London to build a traditional rice barn at the Museum of Mankind. The observer becomes the observed. Now, it is Barley's turn to explain the absurdities of an English city to his bemused guests, in a glorious finale to a trilogy of anthropological journeys that began with The Innocent Anthropologist.