Not a Hazardous Sport by Nigel Barley

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Not a Hazardous Sport by Nigel Barley

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Summary

Anthropologist Nigel Barley, author of "The Innocent Anthropologist" and "A Plague of Caterpillars", recounts the perils and pitfalls of his journey to the remote district of Tarajaland in Indonesia, recording the Toraja people on the island of Sulawesi.

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Not a Hazardous Sport by Nigel Barley

Tiring of the horrors of West Africa, an area which he has spent much of his professional life studying, anthropologist Nigel Barley taught himself Indonesian and spent a number of months at the end of 1985 on the island of Sulawesi. Here he hoped to find unsullied cultures to study, unspoilt natives to investigate. Barley found plenty to wonder at and plenty to admire among the Toraja, a vastly interesting people whose culture include headhunting, transvestite priests, and massacre of buffalo.

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ISBN 13 9780140094237
ISBN 10 0140094237
Title Not a Hazardous Sport
Author Nigel Barley
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 1989-12-07
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.