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 ...
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.
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 Ethno...
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.
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1 The Reason Why 7
2 Be Prepared 14
3 To the Hills 19
4 Honi soit qui Malinowski 28
5 Take me to your Leader 37
6 Is the sky clear for you? 51
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1 The Reason Why 7
2 Be Prepared 14
3 To the Hills 19
4 Honi soit qui Malinowski 28
5 Take me to your Leader 37
6 Is the sky clear for you? 51
7 'O Cameroon, O Cradle of our Fathers' 68
8 Rock Bottom 99
9 Ex Africa semper quid nasty 116
10 Rites and Wrongs 122
11 The Wet and the Dry 145
12 First and Last Fruits 166
13 An English Alien 183
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广西师范大学出版社2011版
0 有用 大覺包 2014-09-30 13:49:34
chapter1,2,3,4
0 有用 Le Flaneur 2025-10-11 12:45:50 江苏
能看出作者确实努力避免高高在上的“殖民者视角”，用自嘲（天真的白人在原始丛林中生存）来消解自己的权威性，把自己描绘成一个笨手笨脚、不断出丑的局外人，但这种姿态的改变，并未改变田野工作本身固有的权力结构，他仍然是那个掌握着最终话语权的西方知识分子，他的“失败”和“尴尬”最终都变成了畅销书的内容，供西方读者消费，这种“友善的凝视”依然是凝视；Barley的写作风格幽默易读，也许能够让更多大众读者接触到... 能看出作者确实努力避免高高在上的“殖民者视角”，用自嘲（天真的白人在原始丛林中生存）来消解自己的权威性，把自己描绘成一个笨手笨脚、不断出丑的局外人，但这种姿态的改变，并未改变田野工作本身固有的权力结构，他仍然是那个掌握着最终话语权的西方知识分子，他的“失败”和“尴尬”最终都变成了畅销书的内容，供西方读者消费，这种“友善的凝视”依然是凝视；Barley的写作风格幽默易读，也许能够让更多大众读者接触到人类学并对这个学科产生兴趣，但与此同时又巧妙地回避了人类学家应该承担的、更严肃的政治和经济分析责任，把田野工作中的权力不平等、文化误解都喜剧化了，从而使得这些问题变得无害、甚至可爱，这种“易读”在某种程度上是一种“去政治化”的处理 (展开)
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