The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut
Nigel Barley
ISBN 10: 0805019677 ISBN 13: 9780805019674
Published by Henry Holt & Co, 1992
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Describes the misadventures of a novice anthropologist trying to study the culture of the Dowayo people of the Cameroons
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.: "The prevalence of factual data in anthropological monographs stems . . . from an attitude of 'when in doubt, collect facts.' This is, in a sense, an understandable approach. So off I went every day, armed with my tobacco and notebooks and paced out the fields, calculated the yields, counted the goats in a flurry of irrelevant activity. This at least had the virtue of making my weird and inexplicable ways familiar to the Dowayos and I began to know them by name." (from Chapter 6)
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Title: The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a ...
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Condition: As New
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