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Focusing on the rich symbolic universe of the Dowayos in north Cameroon, this detailed study explores their cultural practices, beliefs, and social structures. It delves into the meanings behind their rituals and symbols, offering insights into how these elements shape their identity and worldview. Through comprehensive analysis, the book provides an in-depth understanding of the Dowayo people's unique cultural heritage and the significance of their symbolic expressions in everyday life.
Seit die Aids-Epidemie um sich greift, kommt dem gesundheitspolitischen Auftrag der Aufklärung eine äusserst dramatische Bedeutung zu. In vielen Ländern hat das Plakat als Informationsmedium erst durch Aids Verbreitung gefunden, so das zunächst visuelle Formeln zu einer Thematik entwickelt werden mussten, die mit vielen Tabus behaftet ist. Eine Übersicht von aktuellen Aids-Präventionsplakaten aus Asien, dem Pazifikraum und Afrika zeigt auf, dass die zwingend erforderliche Wirksamkeit der Plakate nach einer Verankerung in lokalen Traditionen verlangt. Aids hat das so das Plakat wieder auf seine fundamentale Bedeutung als Massenkommunikationsmittel zurückgeführt.
When local contacts tipped off Nigel Barley that the Dowayo circumcision ceremony was about to take place, he immediately left London for the village in northern Cameroon where he had lived as a field anthropologist for 18 months.
A novel about eccentric 19th-century Englishman Alexander Hare: a trader and slave-owner in the East and a friend of Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, but Hare's chief claim to fame is as the creator of a harem of women from throughout Asia.
Nigel Barley was a ?new anthropologistOCO, one of the younger generation of academics whose learning and research had been acquired in institutes, research departments, from academic journals and university libraries. But after suffering years of gentle put-downs from leathery old field-workers, their ?teeth permanently gritted from years of dealing with nativesOCO, he was determined to gain his own experience. The two years he spent among the Dowayo people in the Cameroons (1978-80) produced a comic masterpiece of travel writing, The Innocent Anthropologist, which remains as honest, as funny and as compelling a read as when it was first penned ? and a devastating critique of academics attempting to impose their rules and their order on West African life."
In 1985, Dr Nigel Barley taught himself Indonesian and set off for the relatively unknown island of Sulawesi. Here he hoped to find unsullied cultures to study and unspoilt natives to investigate. he soon found plenty to wonder at and plenty to admire among the Toraja.
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.
A unique look at the British from an anthropologist`s point of view. The author uses his skills to describe and analyze various aspects of British society, from weddings and church services to strip clubs and pub-crawls.
Seeking to merge the information of theologians and anthropologists, this book looks at the variety of ways in which cultures around the world deal with death and give it meaning. In some cultures, most famously Ancient Egypt, families would virtually financially ruin themselves in order to deal with the death of just one person. Other cultures such as the nomadic peoples of southern Africa, simply pull down the roof of their dwelling onto the body and move on, while the wrapped bodies in Torajan (Indonesian) houses are used as shelves. The reader is guided through such diverse areas as myths about death, belief about ways to mourn, joking at funerals, post-mortem videos, cannibalism, headhunting and royal mortuary ritual.
From its unique perspective and with a mixture of humour and romance, The Devil's Garden pictures a formative moment in the emergence of Singapore, where loyalties are less secure than those of the official histories and truth is anything but simple.