Nigel Frederick Barley is a British anthropologist known for his books based on his anthropological field work, which have been treated as travel writing. His first book The Innocent Anthropologist, w
Barley spent some years living in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi, studying the local customs.
Wooden fertility doll with beaded cords and amulets from the Dowayo people of West Africa studied by Barley. TropenMuseum collection.
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Walter Spies was a German primitivist painter, composer, musicologist, and curator. In 1923 he moved to Java, Indonesia. He lived in Yogyakarta and then in Ubud, Bali starting from 1927, when Indonesi
Nigel Barley (anthropologist)
…He has since written numerous other works, including fiction. He wrote a historical novel Island of Demons (2009), loosely based on the German artist Walter Spies, who lived for most of his career in Bali. Barley was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1947. He gained his bachelor's degree in modern languages at…
Walter Spies
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Walter Spies with Angelica Archipenko c. 1930