Toraja: Misadventures of a Social Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Sep 2013 · Monsoon Books
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In 1985, Dr. Nigel Barley, senior anthropologist at The British Museum, set off for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi in search of the Toraja, a people whose culture includes headhunting, transvestite priests and the massacre of buffalo. In witty and finely crafted prose, Barley offers fascinating insight into the people of Sulawesi and he recounts the tale of the four Torajan woodcarvers he invites back to London to construct an Indonesian rice barn in The British Museum. Previously published as "Not a Hazardous Sport".
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April 27, 2017
I haven't ventured Sulawesi like Nigel did, but having had lived in a corner of the small village in Borneo back when the villagers are still Pagan, I can feel a huge similarities of the way of people in Sulawesi and Northern Borneo live their everyday ordinary lifes. Therefore, whenever I started reading Toraja, I simply can't puy my android phone down. I like every single bit of the book.
Pong Caesar
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December 21, 2015
good culture
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About the author
Nigel Barley is the author of twenty books with Penguin, Time Warner, Monsoon Books and Little, Brown. He originally trained as an anthropologist and worked in West Africa, spending time with the Dowayo people of North Cameroon. He survived to move to the Ethnography Department of the British Musem and it was in this connection that he first travelled to Southeast Asia. After forrays into Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and Burma, Barley settled on Indonesia as his principal research interest and has worked on both the history and contemporary culture of that area. After escaping from the museum, he is now a writer and broadcaster and divides his time between London and Indonesia. - See more at: http: //www.monsoonbooks.com.sg/rogue-raider-9789814423137/#sthash.Xxhua26l.dp
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