Nigel Barley
British anthropologist and author known for witty travel writing and ethnographic works such as The Innocent Anthropologist, drawing on fieldwork in Cameroon; he also served as a curator at the British Museum.
Books
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1. El Antropólogo Inocente
Notes from a Mud Hut
A witty, candid account of a novice anthropologist’s first fieldwork among the Dowayo people in northern Cameroon, tracing comic mishaps, bureaucratic obstacles, illness, and cultural misunderstandings that test his assumptions and methods, while revealing the gap between tidy academic theory and the messy, often absurd realities of ethnographic research.