by Nigel Barley · Payot · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782228887557
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«Un anthropologue en déroute» is the travelogue of anthropologist Nigel Barley, published by Payot in paperback (278 pages, in French).
Anthropologist Nigel Barley travels to northern Cameroon to study the Dowayo, but fieldwork turns into a chain of cultural clashes and humorous situations. The community welcomes him and ends up using him as a nurse, banker and driver, while the researcher discovers that the real object of observation is himself.
Translation by Marc Duchamp of the English original The Innocent Anthropologist (1983), first installment of that series. It is number 176 in the Voyageurs collection of Petite Bibliothèque Payot.
A suitable read for those who enjoy anthropology, travel writing and memoirs written with humor and self-criticism.
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.
