by Nigel Barley · Unionsverlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783293205895
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«Die Raupenplage» is Nigel Barley's ethnographic chronicle, published by Unionsverlag in paperback (216 pages, in German).
Nigel Barley returns to Cameroon to witness a circumcision ceremony of the Dowayos, but a plague of black caterpillars upends his plans. With humor and self-criticism, he recounts misunderstandings, waiting and setbacks of fieldwork, and reflects on the difficulty of understanding a foreign culture.
Second installment of the series «The Innocent Anthropologist». Original title: «A Plague of Caterpillars» (1986). German translation by Ulrich Enderwitz.
Suitable for those who enjoy travel narratives and anthropological popularization told with humor.
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.
