Nigel Barley was a ?new anthropologistOCO, one of the younger generation of academics whose learning and research had been acquired in institutes, research departments, from academic journals and university libraries. But after suffering years of gentle put-downs from leathery old field-workers, their ?teeth permanently gritted from years of dealing with nativesOCO, he was determined to gain his own experience. The two years he spent among the Dowayo people in the Cameroons (1978-80) produced a comic masterpiece of travel writing, The Innocent Anthropologist, which remains as honest, as funny and as compelling a read as when it was first penned ? and a devastating critique of academics attempting to impose their rules and their order on West African life."
- ISBN10 0816131899
- ISBN13 9780816131891
- Publish Date 31 December 1998 (first published 30 January 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 November 2006
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Gale
- Imprint G K Hall & Co,US
- Format Hardcover
- Language English