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  • Essay / An Analysis of the Innocent Anthropologist by Nigel Barley

    Which in a way isn't very striking because if you think about it, they really don't have much to do with their cultures because that they have no signs, everything is located in cabins but it also makes me wonder what they learn when they are in school. This remains very interesting to me. Another thing I found very striking was the fact that they were suffering from very, very serious illnesses and Barley states: "The Dowayos always keep the wounds open and remove a bandage as soon as they are visible" (Barley 61) . I thought that since they were afraid of catching malaria, they would keep the bandages on. Finally, another thing that struck me was that when the Dowayo talked to people, they stared at the ground and murmured words, which meant they were listening to our culture. We normally look them in the eye, which means we hear directly. and listening