Nigel Barley: A Plague of Caterpillars

Cover: 9781780601519 | A Plague of Caterpillars | A Return to the African Bush | Nigel Barley

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Beschreibung

Nigel Barley returns to Cameroon on hearing that the elaborate and fearsome Dowayo circumcision ceremony, performed at six or seven year intervals, is about to take place. Yet, like much else in this hilarious book by the author of The Innocent Anthropologist, the circumcision ceremony proves frustratingly elusive, partly because of an extraordinary plague of black, hairy caterpillars. In the meantime, witchcraft fills the Cameroonian air, a man is lied to by his own foot and an earnest German traveller shows explicit birth-control propaganda to the respectable tribespeople. Beneath the joy and shared laughter in this comic masterpiece lies skilful and wise reflection on the problems facing people of different cultures as they try to understand one another.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781780601519
ISBN-10:	1780601514
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Barley, Nigel
Hersteller:	Eland Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 8 mm
Von/Mit:	Nigel Barley
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.02.2026
Gewicht:	0,194 kg