Nigel Barley
Biographic Data
| ID | 77914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nigel Barley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nigel |
| FAMILY NAME | Barley |
| SIGNATURE | BARLEY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Le Retour de l'anthropologue
Film reviews
Adventures in Nigeria. Tubali: Hausa Architecture of Northern Nigeria. Directed by Sabine Jell‐Bahlsen; Yusufu Mohammed, camera. 1994, 45 minutes, color. Distributed in Europe by S. Jell‐Bahlsen, Aisching 1, 83257 Gstadt, Germany. Tel: +49–8054–302; fax: +49–8054–909774. Distributed in U.S.A. by NBPC, Suite A, 761 Oak Street, Columbus, OH 43205. Tel: +614–229–4399; fax: +614–229–4398. Sale price (NTSC) $40.00; (PAL) £25.00. (Script is included wi…
The Sainsbury African Galleries at the British Museum
Presentation de la nouvelle exposition permanente de la collection africaine hebergee pendant pres de trente ans au Museum of Mankind (Londres) et maintenant installee dans les Sainsbury African Galleries du British Museum. Mettant en perspective la diversite culturelle, geographique, ethnique et artistique de la culture materielle et de l'art africains ainsi que leur impact mondial, les choix museologiques operes tentent de conjuger dans un cont…
Dancing on the Grave: Encounters with Death
This work takes a look at how different cultures around the world have handled death and given it its meaning. Some cultures, for example, Ancient Egypt, virtually bankrupted themselves to deal with the death of a single person; others simply pull down the roof on the corpse and walk away. The book shows how much of even the most exotic practices and themes can be relevant to all
I've Been Gone Far Too Long: Field Trip Fiascoes and Expedition Disasters
Here are the stories of 30 research scientists who go off the deep ends of the earth. Travel with a young researcher in Dian Fossey's camp as she is handed a gun and told to go out and shoot a gorilla poacher. See how a scientist reacts when he discovers a poisonous bushmaster in his bidet. From bush pilots and endangered species to Land Rover nightmares, these hair-raising tales will keep you up past dawn. This book is a tribute to the courage o…
Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast, 1500-1970
African Material Culture
INTRODUCTION: Efficacy and Objects Kris L. Hardin and MaryEJo Arnoldi PART I: TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRODUCTION OF FORM 1. Technological Style and the Making of Culture: Three Kono Contexts of Production Kris L. Hardin 2. Magical Iron Technology in the Cameroon Grassfields Michael Rowlands and Jean-Pierre Warnier 3. When Nomads Settle: Changing Technologies of Building and Transport and the Production of Architectural Form among the Gabra, the Rendil…
Smashing Pots: Works of Clay from Africa
Africa95 at the Museum of Mankind
Quatre expositions au Museum of Mankind presentent des articles de textile : « Display and Modesty: North African Textiles » montre l'art du tissage, les vetements simples ou brodes importants dans les ceremonies de cycles de vie ; « Secular and Sacred: Ethiopian Textiles » expose « shamma », « kamis », et soie tissee ; « Power of the Hand: African Arms and Armour » presente les armes et les armures et « Great Benin », davantage destinee aux ense…
Smashing Pots: Works of clay from Africa
Die Kunst der Frauen: Zur Komplementaritat von Nacktheit und Maskierung bei den Ejagham im Sudwesten Kameruns
Smashing Pots: Works of clay from Africa
The Sultan's Burden/Madame L'eau/Nomads of the Taiga
The Sultan′s Burden. Jon Jerstad and Lisbeth Holtedahl. Northern lights Fllmproduction. Mortimer Hill, Mortimer. Berkshire RG7 3PG. England. Madame L′eau. Jean Rouch. 1993 NFI Productions, BBC Television and France. (short version) Nomads of the Taiga. Heimo Lappalainen. Consultant, Nikolai Ssorin‐Chaikov. 1992. x 50 minutes. Dlsbributed by Illume Oy. Pasilan Puistotie 4. Fin‐00240. Helsinki, finland. Vhs Us$400/part, $1000 for series. 16mm us$10…
Between God, the Dead and the Wild: Chamba Interpretations of Religion and Ritual. Richard Fardon
The innocent anthropologist: Notes From a Mud Hut
Foreheads of the Dead: An Anthropological View of Kalabari Ancestral Screens
Foreheads of the Dead: An Anthropological View of Kalabari Ancestral Screens
Foreheads of the Dead
Glanzend wie Gold: Gelbguss bei den Senufo, Elfenbeinkuste
In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship Among the Songhay of Niger
The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world
The linguistic image in the interpretation of African objects
Pop Art in Africa? The Kalabari Ijo Ancestral Screens
Discussion on Paper by Hans Bosse
Henri Lhote: Les chars rupestres sahariens: des syrtes au Niger, Par le pays des Garamantes et des Atlantes.(Collection Archéologie. Horizon neufs.) [285] PP. Toulouse: Éditions des Hesp00E9;rides. Fr…
Henri Lhote: Les chars rupestres sahariens: des syrtes au Niger, Par le pays des Garamantes et des Atlantes.(Collection Archéologie. Horizon neufs.) [285] PP. Toulouse: Éditions des Hesp00E9;rides. Fr.146. - Volume 48 Issue 1
Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture
The innocent anthropologist: Notes From a Mud Hut
Dancing on the Grave: Encounters with Death
This work takes a look at how different cultures around the world have handled death and given it its meaning. Some cultures, for example, Ancient Egypt, virtually bankrupted themselves to deal with the death of a single person; others simply pull down the roof on the corpse and walk away. The book shows how much of even the most exotic practices and themes can be relevant to all
Symbolic Structures: An Exploration of the Culture of the Dowayos
Preface 1. The ethnographic background 2. Symbolism and the punctuation of culture 3. Some problems of the representational model of symbolism 4. The leopard cannot change his spots 5. Water and fertility 6. Tarniisnohgbarklele: 'the place where the old Fulani woman was beaten to death' 7. 'It is only thanks to me that you were circumcised' 8. The seasons of the year and the joker in the pack: relations of nesting and quotation Appendix: The fest…
Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture
The Logic of Culture: Advances in Structural Theory and Methods
Smashing Pots: Works of clay from Africa
The Holy Greyhound
The Sainsbury African Galleries at the British Museum
Presentation de la nouvelle exposition permanente de la collection africaine hebergee pendant pres de trente ans au Museum of Mankind (Londres) et maintenant installee dans les Sainsbury African Galleries du British Museum. Mettant en perspective la diversite culturelle, geographique, ethnique et artistique de la culture materielle et de l'art africains ainsi que leur impact mondial, les choix museologiques operes tentent de conjuger dans un cont…
Africa95 at the Museum of Mankind
Quatre expositions au Museum of Mankind presentent des articles de textile : « Display and Modesty: North African Textiles » montre l'art du tissage, les vetements simples ou brodes importants dans les ceremonies de cycles de vie ; « Secular and Sacred: Ethiopian Textiles » expose « shamma », « kamis », et soie tissee ; « Power of the Hand: African Arms and Armour » presente les armes et les armures et « Great Benin », davantage destinee aux ense…
Glanzend wie Gold: Gelbguss bei den Senufo, Elfenbeinkuste
In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship Among the Songhay of Niger
The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world
Levi-Strauss: Structuralism and Sociological Theory
The Art of War
The Art of Benin
When the Portuguese made the first European contact with the west African kingdom of Benin in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the kingdom was experiencing a golden age. Its authority on the Guinea Coast was expanding through military conquests, and during the sixteenth century it became a leading power in the region and a major trade partner for European merchants. Benin remained an influential independent state and a major poli…
The Anthropology of Art
Symbolic Structures: An Exploration of the Culture of the Dowayos
Many opposing theories have been elaborated by different anthropologists in an attempt to explain the nature of symbolism. In this work Nigel Barley uses a particular ethnographic case to examine the relevance and limitations of these existing theories and to develop a new alternative approach which draws on areas of linguistics and folkloristics at one time neglected by symbolic theorists. The book is a detailed study of the symbolic universe of…
The Warp and Woof of Culture
The Logic of Culture: Advances in Structural Theory and Methods
Carry on Fieldwork
The Holy Greyhound
Symbolic Structures: An Exploration of the Culture of the Dowayos
Preface 1. The ethnographic background 2. Symbolism and the punctuation of culture 3. Some problems of the representational model of symbolism 4. The leopard cannot change his spots 5. Water and fertility 6. Tarniisnohgbarklele: 'the place where the old Fulani woman was beaten to death' 7. 'It is only thanks to me that you were circumcised' 8. The seasons of the year and the joker in the pack: relations of nesting and quotation Appendix: The fest…
Discussion on Paper by Hans Bosse
Henri Lhote: Les chars rupestres sahariens: des syrtes au Niger, Par le pays des Garamantes et des Atlantes.(Collection Archéologie. Horizon neufs.) [285] PP. Toulouse: Éditions des Hesp00E9;rides. Fr…
Henri Lhote: Les chars rupestres sahariens: des syrtes au Niger, Par le pays des Garamantes et des Atlantes.(Collection Archéologie. Horizon neufs.) [285] PP. Toulouse: Éditions des Hesp00E9;rides. Fr.146. - Volume 48 Issue 1
Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture
Pop Art in Africa? The Kalabari Ijo Ancestral Screens
The linguistic image in the interpretation of African objects
Foreheads of the Dead: An Anthropological View of Kalabari Ancestral Screens
Foreheads of the Dead
Glanzend wie Gold: Gelbguss bei den Senufo, Elfenbeinkuste
In Sorcery's Shadow: A Memoir of Apprenticeship Among the Songhay of Niger
The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world
The innocent anthropologist: Notes From a Mud Hut
Foreheads of the Dead: An Anthropological View of Kalabari Ancestral Screens
Smashing Pots: Works of clay from Africa
The Sultan's Burden/Madame L'eau/Nomads of the Taiga
The Sultan′s Burden. Jon Jerstad and Lisbeth Holtedahl. Northern lights Fllmproduction. Mortimer Hill, Mortimer. Berkshire RG7 3PG. England. Madame L′eau. Jean Rouch. 1993 NFI Productions, BBC Television and France. (short version) Nomads of the Taiga. Heimo Lappalainen. Consultant, Nikolai Ssorin‐Chaikov. 1992. x 50 minutes. Dlsbributed by Illume Oy. Pasilan Puistotie 4. Fin‐00240. Helsinki, finland. Vhs Us$400/part, $1000 for series. 16mm us$10…
Between God, the Dead and the Wild: Chamba Interpretations of Religion and Ritual. Richard Fardon
Smashing Pots: Works of clay from Africa
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