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Innocent Anthropologist
Av Nigel Barley
Häftad, 2011
149 kr
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The wittiest introduction to the life of a social anthropologist ever written. Studying in the Cameroons for his first experience of fieldwork, Barley discovers that the society of the Dowayo people refuses to conform to the rules of his new discipline. Although set amongst a little-known tribe in …
White Rajah
A Biography of Sir James Brooke
Av Nigel Barley
Häftad, 2003
155 kr
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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 umbrellas in the presence of the Sultan. Brooke was an …
White Rajah
A Biography of Sir James Brooke
Av Nigel Barley
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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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 umbrellas in the presence of the Sultan. Brooke was …
Symbolic Structures
An Exploration of the Culture of the Dowayos
Av Nigel Barley
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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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 and to develop a new alternative approach …
Requiescat
Av Nigel Barley
E-bok, 2014
90 kr
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Between the two World Wars, the most famous employee of the British Museum was a cat called Mike. For some twenty years, Mike made it his home and his friend was a most irregular Egyptologist, Wallis Budge, a freebooting fieldworker and smuggler of antiquities. It was a time when the wildest …
Even
Av Nigel Barley
E-bok, 2014
90 kr
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Most people agree that the world should be just but that it simply isn't. Rogues flourish, the good die young and many feel they have not received their due. Unlike the rest of us, the anonymous hero of Even does not just complain about it, he embarks on a voyage of self-discovery, searching both …
Coronation Chicken
Av Nigel Barley
E-bok, 2014
99 kr
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It is 1953 in southern England, the time of the Coronation, and Jack is a small boy from the poor end of the village who is trying desperately to understand the strange people he has been born into. After the gritty, state-regulated austerity of the war, it is supposed to be a time for the …
Hatewave
Av Malcolm McLeod, Nigel Barley
E-bok, 2015
90 kr
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A man stands trial for a brutal murder, a crucial witness disappears, an MP's daughter confronts a dark family secret and an Asian assassin with a passion for Tom and Jerry cartoons inflicts hideous deaths on those who cannot answer his single question. Welcome to the world of Hatewave where the …
Not a Hazardous Sport
Misadventures of an Anthropologist in Indonesia
Av Nigel Barley
Häftad, 2018
145 kr
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Nigel Barley travels to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia to live among the Torajan people, known for their spectacular buildings and elaborate ancestor cults. At last he is following his own advice to students, to do their anthropological fieldwork `somewhere where the inhabitants are beautiful, …
Plague of Caterpillars
A Return to the African Bush
Av Nigel Barley
Häftad, 2018
156 kr
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This very failure, compounded by the plague of caterpillars of the book s title allows Nigel Barley to concentrate on everyday life in Dowayoland and the tattered remnants of an overripe French colonial legacy. Witchcraft fills the Cameroonian air; add an earnest German traveller showing explicit …
Snow over Surabaya
Av Nigel Barley
Häftad, 2017
110 kr
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Not many British schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel Stewart Walker did just that. Under a multitude of different names - 'K'tut Tantri' and 'Surabaya Sue' being the best know - she joined in the struggle for Indonesian independence after …
Man who Collected Women
Av Nigel Barley
Häftad, 2020
119 kr
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A novel about eccentric 19th-century Englishman Alexander Hare: a trader and slave-owner in the East and a friend of Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, but Hare’s chief claim to fame is as the creator of a harem of women from throughout Asia.
Die Raupenplage
Von einem, der auszog, Ethnologie zu betreiben
Av Nigel Barley
E-bok, 2015
136 kr
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Für Ethnologen gibt es heute nicht mehr viel zu entdecken. Umso erfreuter war Nigel Barley, dass bei den Dowayos eine seltene, noch nie von Weißen beobachtete Beschneidungszeremonie stattfinden sollte. Also machte er sich auf nach Kamerun – und dieses Buch, eher Reisebericht als Sachbuch, ist sein …
Toraja
Misadventures of a Social Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Av Nigel Barley
Häftad, 2013
107 kr
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Devil's Garden
Love and War in Singapore Under the Japanese Flag
Av Nigel Barley
Häftad, 2012
102 kr
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Rogue Raider
The Tale of Captain Lauterbach, the Singapore Mutiny and the Audacious Battle of Penang
Av Nigel Barley
Häftad, 2013
113 kr
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