by Nigel Barley · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140098075
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«A Plague of Caterpillars: A Return to the African Bush» is Nigel Barley's travelogue, published by Penguin in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Nigel Barley returns to Cameroon to attend the circumcision ceremony of the Dowayo, held every six or seven years. The ceremony, however, proves elusive due to a plague of black caterpillars. With witchcraft, cultural misunderstandings and absurd encounters, Barley humorously reflects on the difficulties of mutual understanding between cultures.
Second instalment of the «The Innocent Anthropologist» series.
Recommended for readers interested in anthropology, travel and memoirs with a humorous approach.
Nigel Frederick Barley is a British anthropologist known for his books based on his anthropological field work, which have been treated as travel writing. His first book The Innocent Anthropologist (1983), was an account of field work in Cameroon and was positively reviewed.
