The Innocent Anthropologist
内容简介
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.
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作者简介
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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目录
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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读书文摘
老实讲，不管是当时或现在，我都觉得田野工作或其他学术研究，其正当性不在对集体的贡献，而是远为自私的个人成长。学术研究就像修道院生活，专注追求个人性灵的完美。其结果或许会服务较大层面，却不能以此论断它的本质。不难想象，这种观点不容于学界保守派与自诩改革者。他们深陷恐怖的虔诚与洋洋自得中，拒绝相信世界其实并不系于他们的一言一行。
因为一个族群如果失去认同，最令人类学家扼腕的是世界失去了某一种特殊“世界观”。世界观是一个民族数千年互动与思考的产物。因此，一个民族的消失也代表人类可能性的萎缩。
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