Nigel Barley (anthropologist)

Nigel Barley (* 1947 in London ) is a British anthropologist and author.

Career

Barley was born in 1947 in the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames. He studied modern languages ​​and anthropology at Cambridge and Oxford and operation in the years 1977 and 1978 two years of field research in northern Cameroon with the people of Dowayo. This residence is the basis of his scientific publication Symbolic structures. An exploration of the culture of the Dowayos and his humorous advice on Traumatic tropics. Notes from my mud hut and Caterpillars plague. From 1981 to 2003 he worked as a curator at the British Museum in London. Many of his books have been translated into German.

Works

  • Symbolic structures. An exploration of the culture of the Dowayos. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1983, ISBN 0-521-24745-4
  • Adventures in a Mud Hut: An Innocent Anthropologist Abroad. Vanguard Press, New York 1985, ISBN 0-8149-0880-2 German as: Traumatic tropics. Notes from my mud hut. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-608-93125-2
  • German as: Caterpillar plague. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-93124-4
  • German as: Sad islanders. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-608-93189-9
  • German as: Hello Mister Puttymann. In the Toraja in Indonesia. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-608-95974-2
  • German as: The Lion of Singapore. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-608-93186-4
  • German as: dance around the grave. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-608-91811-6
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