Not a Hazardous Sport : Misadventures of an Anthropologist in Indonesia

from theonearmedcrab

A new discovery for me is Nigel Barley, an anthropologist who wrote a very readable travelogue of his endeavors in Sulawesi when visiting Tana Toraja. "Toraja" (2013, originally published as "Not a Hazardous Sport", 1988) follows Mr Barley from the UK via Moscow to Singapore and Jakarta, and then...

from PDCRead

According to Nigel Barley's insurance company, anthropology was not considered ‘a hazardous sport'. This was reassuring to know as the small print had been as unhelpful as ever. Whilst he now knew it wasn't a sport that didn't seem to make it any less hazardous given the number of drugs he had sp...

from nandadevi

If you were inclined to judge a book by its cover you'd have to conclude that Barley is milking the comedic anthropologist thing for all its worth. And the first hundred pages of his first book well and truly lived up (or down) to that promise. He seemed hell bent there on incorporating some witt...

from Malarchy

Toraja is the 2013 version of the 1998 travelogue Not a Hazardous Sport by Nigel Barley. It is a fun adventure through parts of Java and Sulawesi, in particular spending a little bit of time in the Toraja areas of South Sulawesi. Despite the book''s claims this is not an anthropological work but ...

from Patkue

Vor Jahren las ich vom gleichen Autor "traumatische Tropen" und war sehr angetan. Dieses Buch ich sicher unterhaltsam, aber ich habe den Eindruck, dass der Autor in jeder Zeile bemüht ist, die Geschichte witzig und skurril erscheinen zu lassen. Auf das möglichst alle geschilderten Ereignisse weit...