Leí El antropólogo inocente en Londres mientras cursaba la carrera de Arqueología. No recuerdo si formaba parte de la bibliografía del curso o si me lo recomendó algún amigo arqueólogo.
Este libro delicioso es un híbrido de relato de viaje y estudio etnográfico sobre el singular pueblo toraja, siempre en un tono sarcástico en relación con el engreimiento académico y el frío distanciamiento del...
L'any 1978 Nigel Barley, doctor en antropologia, va anar al Camerun per portar a terme la seva primera experiència de treball de camp antropològic. I va estar a punt de ser l'última. Però va sobreviure i va escriure...
This witty introduction to the life of the social anthropologist describes Barley's experiences in the Cameroons. In his first foray into fieldwork, Barley discovers that the society of the Dowayo people refuses to conform to the rules of his new discipli...
Many opposing theories have been elaborated by different anthropologists in an attempt to explain the nature of symbolism. In this work Nigel Barley uses a particular ethnographic case to examine the relevance and limitations of these existing theories...
Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a party of local Dayaks had refused to furl their...