Toraja: Misadventures of a Social Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Paperback - Nigel Barley

In 1985, Dr Nigel Barley taught himself Indonesian and set off for the relatively unknown island of Sulawesi. Here he hoped to find unsullied cultu...

Not a Hazardous Sport provides a magnificent end to a trilogy of anthropological journeys that began with The Innocent Anthropologist and A Plague ...

The wittiest introduction to the life of a social anthropologist ever written. 'A riotously funny book which actually had me laughing out loud' Ger...

Publisher: Monsoon BooksAuthor(s): Nigel BarleyNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 129 x 199 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softback...

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Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? Although academic writing is an an...

Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing signifi...

DescriptionCreator of the YouTube channel and persona--Vernaculis--Justin Little has brought his acerbic wit and engaging storytelling to print. Hi...

Genre Publics is a cultural history showing how new notions of 'the local' were produced in context of the Indonesian 'local music boom' of the lat...

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This volume foregrounds the dynamics of displacement and the experiences of internal refugees uprooted by conflict and violence in Indonesia. Contr...

Description"In four brief chapters, " writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, "I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparat...

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Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Papuans under Indonesian rule, ultimately revealing ho...

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Publisher: Lit VerlagNumber of pages: 224Collection: Nijmegen Studies in Development and CultPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 236 x 16Cover ...

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Examines the personal lives and sexual attitudes of educated Muslim Javanese youth in the city of Yogyakarta to explore the dramatic social and eth...

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This book explores the relationship between transnational and local Islam as expressed in public discourse and policy-making, as represented in the...

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