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It is rumoures that the eminent anthropologist Evans-Pritchard would simply tell his proteges, 'Get yourself a decent hamper from Fortnum and Mason's and keep away from the native women' Another West Africanist would reveal that the secret of successful fielwork lay in the possession of a good string vest. In my own case…

It came as some comfort to me when I was about to leave Dowayoland that the chief of my village said that he would gladly accompany me back to my English village but that he feared a country where it was always cold, where there were savage beasts like the European dogs at the mission and wheere it was known there were…

My immediate family, who were entirely innocent of anthropological expertise, knew only that I ws mad enough to go to savage lands where I would live in the jungle, constantly menaced by lions and snakes, and might be likely enough to escape the cooking pot.

If anyone approaches you in old British territory speaking a totally uninteleggigible tonge of which even the basic sounds are quite unfamiliar, it is probably English.

It is a polite fiction that anthropologists are consumed with a fire to live among one single people on the face of this planet whom they believe to be guardians of a secret of great relevance to the resr of the human race, and to suggest they work elsewhere is like suggesting they might have married anyone but their…