Tiring of the horrors of West Africa, an area which he has spent much of his professional life studying, anthropologist Nigel Barley taught himself Indonesian and spent a number of months at the end of 1985 on the island of Sulawesi. Here he hoped to find unsullied cultures to study, unspoilt natives to investigate. Barley found plenty to wonder at and plenty to admire among the Toraja, a vastly interesting people whose culture include headhunting, transvestite priests, and massacre of buffalo.
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Tiring of the horrors of West Africa, an area which he has spent much of his professional life studying, anthropologist Nigel Barley taught himself Indonesian and spent a number of months at the end of 1985 on the island of Sulawesi. Here he hoped to find unsullied cultures to study, unspoilt natives to investigate. Barley found plenty to wonder at and plenty to admire among the Toraja, a vastly interesting people whose culture include headhunting, transvestite priests, and massacre of buffalo.
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Good. Rubbing and creasing to cover and spine. Some tanning to pages. No apparent marks throughout this book. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. An anthropological journey of mishaps and misunderstandings while en route to the remote district of Torojaland in South Sulawesi. 206pp.
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8vo. Blue cloth spine and yellow paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 206pp 2 maps. Near fine/near fine. A superb and tight first U.S. edition of this anthropological field trip through Indonesia.