Nigel Barley's The Innocent Anthropologist

In Nigel Barley’s “The Innocent Anthropologist” the main ideas seen at the beginning of the story is how hard it to do field work. When Barley figured out he wanted to do his research on the Dowayos it took him a while just to step foot in their village. I would also say another main ideas is whether or not one should do field work and how it helps enhance human knowledge. I think the ultimate goal for him to research the Dowayos was to absorb a culture that not many knew about, and also to make outsiders aware of the Dowayos.
The different places Barley visited were all very unique in culture. When being engulfed in someone else’s culture you have to have an open mind. For instance the term culture relativism in lecture, you have to understand