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Not a Hazardous Sport - Misadventures of an Anthropologist in Indonesia (Paperback)
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Not a Hazardous Sport - Misadventures of an Anthropologist in Indonesia (Paperback)
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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, friendly, where you would like the
food and there are nice flowers. With his customary wit and delight
in the telling detail, he takes the reader deep into this complex
but adaptable society. The mutual warmth of his friendships allows
Barley to reverse the habitual patterns of anthropology. He becomes
host to four Torajan carvers in London, invited to build a
traditional rice barn at the Museum of Mankind. The observer
becomes the observed, and it is Barley s turn to explain the absurd
complexities of an English city to his bemused but tolerant guests
in a magnificent, self critical finale. Not a Hazardous Sport
provides a magnificent end to a trilogy of anthropological journeys
that began with The Innocent Anthropologist and A Plague of
Caterpillars (both published by Eland). A postscript, penned thirty
years after these adventures had been concluded, confirms the rich
arc of this storyline of role reversals.
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