Can I access my backup contacts on my mac somewhere whithout actually connecting the phone?

Hi,
I have a problem. Me an my boyfriend had to share the same apple id and the same macbook to connect our phones to. Now, for some strange reasons after backing up in iCloud. My boyfriend's contacts are all gone. iCloud backup still shows two different backup folders for the two seperate phones but I don't know how to see the content or don't know if that is possible at all. The question is, how can we get his contacts back? He is in another country and cannot connect his phone to the mac. I just hope now, after iCloud messed it up, that the contacts are still saved from the last backup he did on the mac itself (via iTunes). Is there a way to see then on the mac without connecting the phone?
Thank you all,
Julia

Hi I think I have a solution.  I just purchased one of these amazing little phones this week and had the same issue, and I too was about to throw it out the door and revert to my old Noika 6120....I was also following the adivce above but no luck.  Then fortunately I came across this feature....
Select  'Contacts' and you will see at the very top of the screen a little white bar with the word 'Contacts' in it, it also has a little drop down arrow to the right.  Use you navigation buttons to get you up to that little bar, when you are there it will highlight (my comes up in blue) then you have the choice of either 'Contacts' (refers to the Ovi info) or 'Phone' (refers to the 'old fashioned' list of contacts that we have all been looking for.  Select 'Phone'.  This will then allow the features that are mentioned in the discussions above to be activated.  Follow those instructions to make this 'Phone' list premanently displayed on your phone, but the instructions given above will work now.
Hopes this helps, now I am so happy with new little phone, its fantastic!  Love it! 
Cheers all
eccydee

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