Nigel Barley

Nigel Frederick Barley (* 1947 in London ) is a British anthropologist and author.

Career

Barley was born in Kingston upon Thames , London in 1947 . He studied modern languages ​​at Cambridge and ethnology at Oxford and conducted two years of field research in the north of Cameroon with the Dowayo people in 1977 and 1978 . This stay is the basis of his scientific publication Symbolic structures. An exploration of the culture of the Dowayos and his humorous experience report Traumatic Tropics. Notes from my mud hut. Another stay led him again to the Dowayo, described in The caterpillar plague, which is linked to the traumatic tropics . He undertook further studies with the Toraja on Sulawesi . From 1981 to 2003 he worked as curator at the British Museum in London, where he was responsible for the West and North Africa departments. His book Sad Islanders is about the English from the perspective of an ethnologist and is based on a six-part television series in which he also acted as an author and speaker. In 1992, The Lion of Singapore, a biography by Stamford Raffles, was published . Many of his books have been translated into German.

Works

• Symbolic structures. An exploration of the culture of the Dowayos. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1983, ISBN 0-521-24745-4 .
• Adventures in a Mud Hut: An Innocent Anthropologist Abroad. Vanguard Press, New York 1985, ISBN 0-8149-0880-2 .
  • German as: Traumatic tropics. Notes from my mud hut. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-608-93125-2 .
• A Plague of Caterpillars. Viking Press, New York 1986, ISBN 0-670-80704-4 .
  • German as: Die Raupenplage. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-93124-4 .
• Native land. Viking Press, New York 1989, ISBN 0-670-83039-9 .
  • German as: Sad Islanders. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-608-93189-9 .
• The Coast. Penguin, London 1991, ISBN 0-14-012213-3 .
• Not a Hazardous Sport. Henry Holt, New York 1989, ISBN 0-8050-0960-4 .
  • German as: Hello Mister Puttymann. With the Toraja in Indonesia . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-608-95974-2 .
  • German also as: In the footsteps of Mr. Spock. A trip to Indonesia. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-94897-4 .
• The Duke of Puddle Dock. Henry Holt, New York 1992, ISBN 0-8050-1968-5 .
  • German as: The Lion of Singapore . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-608-93186-4 .
• Dancing on the Grave. Henry Holt, New York 1997, ISBN 0-8050-4824-3 .
  • German as: dance around the grave. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-608-91811-6 .
• Visual Strategies Against AIDS. Müller, Baden 2002, ISBN 3-907078-90-X .
• White Rajah. A Biography of Sir James Brooke . Little Brown, London 2002, ISBN 0-3168-5920-6 .
• Rogue Raider: The Tale of Captain Lauterbach and the Singapore Mutiny. Monsoon Books, Singapore 2006, ISBN 981-05-5949-6 .
• Island of Demons: A Novelistic Treatment of the Life of Painter Walter Spies in Bali . Monsoon Books, Singapore 2009, ISBN 978-981-08-2381-8 .
  • German as: Bali - The Last Paradise. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015,
• The Devil's Garden: Live and War in Singapore under the Japanese Flag. Monsoon Books, Singapore 2011, ISBN 978-981-4358-42-2 .
• Even: A Novella of Revenge and Misfortune. 2012, ISBN 978-1-4566-2019-6 .
• Requiescat: A Cat's Life at the British Museum. 2013, ISBN 978-1-4566-1994-7 .
• Coronation Chicken. 2014, ISBN 978-1-4566-2197-1 .
• Arts du Nigeria - Revisites. Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva 2015.
• Snow over Surabaya. Monsoon Books, Singapore 2017, ISBN 9781912049004 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Nigel Barley in the catalog of the German National Library
• A pain and a soul and other texts by Nigel Barley in NZZ Folio
• Article in Die Zeit about Nigel Barley