In 1985, Dr. Nigel Barley, senior anthropologist at The British Museum, set off
for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi in search of the Toraja
, a people whose culture includes headhunting, transvestite priests and the mass
acre of buffalo. In witty and finely crafted prose, Barley offers fascinating in
sight into the people of Sulawesi and he recounts the tale of the four Torajan w
oodcarvers he invites back to London to construct an Indonesian rice barn in The
British Museum.
