"In 1985, Dr Nigel Barley, then senior anthroplogist at the Britrish Museum, taught himself Indonesian and set off for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Here he hoped to find unsullied cultures to study and unpoilt natives to investigate. [He] soon found plen…
In 1985, Dr. Nigel Barley, senior anthropologist at The British Museum, set off for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi in search of the Toraja, a people whose culture includes headhunting, transvestite priests and the massacre of buffalo. In witty and finely cr…
Le retour de l'anthropologue
by Barley, Nigel, Bories, Alain
fromPetite bibliothèque Payot (Paris)
Le retour de l'anthropologue
by Barley, Nigel, Bories, Alain
fromPetite bibliothèque Payot (Paris)