{"product_id":"toraja","title":"Toraja","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1985, Dr Nigel Barley, then senior anthropologist at The British Museum, taught himself Indonesian and set off for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Here he hoped to find unsullied cultures to study and unspoilt natives to investigate. Barley soon found plenty to wonder at and plenty to admire among the Toraja, a vastly interesting 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 their lifestyles, and he recounts hilarious tales of the many memorable characters he meets there, not least the four Torajan woodcarvers the author invites back to London to construct an Indonesian rice barn in The British Museum. This quartet of Indonesian Marx Brothers soon discover the joys of pornographic films and the London Zoo, although they never get to grips with turning off bathroom taps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNigel Barley\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eKingston upon Thames\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein 1947. He gained his bachelor's degree in modern languages at\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eCambridge University, and his\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edoctorate\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esocial anthropology\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eat\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eOxford University. He worked for some years as an academic at London University and then served from 1980 to 2003 as an assistant keeper of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEthnography\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eat the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBritish Museum.\u003csup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-JRank_3-0\"\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarley's first travel book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Innocent Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1983), gave a popular account of anthropological fieldwork among the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDowayo\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epeople of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eCameroon. Barley then worked as an anthropologist in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIndonesia. His first book based on his time there was the humorous\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot a Hazardous Sport\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1989) describing his anthropological experiences in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTana Toraja\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein the mountains of central\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSulawesi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarley has written on many other subjects including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore,\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.6667px;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSir James Brooke, the \"white rajah\" of Sarawak.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHe has been twice nominated for the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTravelex\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWriter of the Year Award. In 2002, he won the Foreign Press Association prize for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etravel writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pansing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32123464712305,"sku":"9789814423465","price":18.5,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/Toraja_by_Nigel_Barley_00.jpg?v=1602769487","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/toraja","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}