Will Buckingham travelled to Tanimbar Islands (Indonesia) as a trainee anthropologist to meet three remarkable sculptors: the crippled Matias Fatruan, the buffalo hunter Abraham Amelwatin, and Damianus Masele, who was skilled in black magic, but who abstained out of Christian principle. Part memoir, part travel-writing, Stealing with the Eyes is the story of these men, and also of how stumbling into a world of witchcraft, sickness and fever lead him to question the validity of his anthropological studies, and eventually to abandon them for good. Through his encounters with these remarkable craftsmen and weaving together Tanimbarese history, myth and philosophy of this part of the world from ancient times we are shown the forces at play in all of our lives: the struggle between the powerful and the powerless, the tension between the past and the future, and how to make sense of a world that is in constant flux.

About the Author
Will Buckingham is a writer of fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. He is currently a Reader in Writing and Creativity at the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University in UK. Among its publication there is Sixty-Four Chance Pieces (Earnshaw Books, 2015) and Lucy and the Rocket Dog (Knopf, 2017). He lives in Leicester.


Book Information
ISBN 9781909961425
Author Will Buckingham
Format Paperback
Page Count 220
Imprint The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
Publisher Haus Publishing