by Nigel Barley · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433925183
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«El antropólogo inocente» is Nigel Barley's chronicle, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Nigel Barley recounts his first fieldwork among the Dowayo of Cameroon. Settled in a mud hut to study their customs and beliefs, he discovers that theory is useless before an elusive society. Amid boredom, disasters and illness, he turns the experience into a humorous and irreverent chronicle.
Volume 18 of the Crónicas collection. Translation by María José Rodellar and foreword by Alberto Cardín. First instalment of the series The Innocent Anthropologist.
For readers interested in anthropology, travel writing and memoirs written with humour.
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.
