Plague of Caterpillars : A Return to the African Bush

from starbox

A trip to the remote North of Cameroon, February 21, 2015 This review is from: A plague of caterpillars: a return to the African bush (Paperback) An account of the author's return to Cameroon for a second anthropological study. He has come to study the rare circumcision ceremony, which only occur...

from ritaer

Mildly amusing tale of anthropologist returning to a tribe in the Camerons to witness the circumcision rite which he has theorized is a key to the culture's entire ritual cycle. His initial investigation of the tribe and the reasons for his theory are laid out in an earlier book, _The Innocent An...

from PDCRead

Having failed to see the circumcision ceremony which marks the men of the Dowayo tribe transition from child to adulthood when he was there previously, Barley hears that it is due shortly to take place. Hot-footing it out to Cameroon again, he heads back to the village to see if he can witness th...

from nandadevi

Barley grew on me very slowly in his earlier account ('The Innocent Anthropologist') of his first field expedition to the Dawayo people of Cameroon - his studied incompetence in finding his way to their homeland was tiresome, the pratt-falls landed too heavily and too often, and the overblown blu...