Nigel Barley may refer to:
Nigel Barley (born 1947 in Kingston upon Thames, England) is an anthropologist famous for the books he has written on his experiences.
Barley studied modern languages at Cambridge University and completed a doctorate in social anthropology at Oxford University. He held a number of academic positions before joining the British Museum as an assistant keeper in the Department of Ethnography, where he remained until 2003.
Barley's first book, The Innocent Anthropologist (1983), was a witty and informative account of anthropological field work among the Dowayo people of Cameroon. The anthropologist Tony Waters calls it a memorably written story, and writes that it is the book he gets students to read for an understanding of "field work, ethnography, and cultural anthropology." Waters says he truly admires the book as it gives a realistic idea of field experience, but "Oddly, I find few anthropologists who have read it, much less heard of it."
This was followed by other books about Africa including A Plague of Caterpillars (1986) and Ceremony (1987).
Nigel Barley (born 27 September 1974) is an Australian cyclist. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, he won a silver medal.
Barley was born on 27 September 1974. He is from Western Australia. When he was twenty-six years old, he broke his back after falling from a roof and onto a hammer.As of 2012, he lives in Parkerville, Western Australia.
Barley is an H3 classified hand-cyclist competing in road time trial and road race events. He has a scholarship with the Western Australian Institute of Sport. His carbon fibre hand-cycle costs A$20,000.
Barley took up the sport within a year of his accident. He has hand-cycled from Perth, Western Australia to Sydney, New South Wales. At the 2011 para-cycling road World Cup in Sydney, he finished third in the H3 hand cycling event. In 2012, he competed in races in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Australia and France. Some of these races were part of the 2012 International Paracycling Tour season. Others were part of the World Cup season. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, he won a silver medal in the Men's Road Individual Time Trial H3. He was the sixth Western Australia to be named to the Australian team. The Paralympics were his first.