Argonauts of the Western Pacific : an account of Native Enterprise and adventure in the Archipelagos of Melanesian New Guinea / Bronislaw Malinowski ; with a foreword by Adam Kuper.
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TextSeries: Routledge classicsPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2014Description: xviii, 541 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415738644 (paperback); 9781315772158 (ebook)Subject(s): Kula exchange -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands | Massim (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies | Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands | Folklore -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands | Barter -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General | Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 305.8009953 LOC classification: GN671.N5 | M3 2014Other classification: SOC002000 Online resources: Cover image Summary: "Bronislaw Malinowski's pathbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific is at once a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology. Malinowski argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never lose sight is 'to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.' Through vivid evocations of Kula life, including the building and launching of canoes, fishing expeditions and the role of myth and magic amongst the Kula people, Malinowski brilliantly describes an inter-island system of exchange - from gifts from father to son to swapping fish for yams - around which an entire community revolves. A classic of anthropology that did much to establish the primacy of painstaking fieldwork over the earlier anecdotal reports of travel writers, journalists and missionaries, it is a compelling insight into a world now largely lost from view. With a new foreword by Adam Kuper"-- Provided by publisher.
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Originally published: London : G. Routledge & sons, ltd., 1922.
"Bronislaw Malinowski's pathbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific is at once a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology. Malinowski argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never lose sight is 'to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.' Through vivid evocations of Kula life, including the building and launching of canoes, fishing expeditions and the role of myth and magic amongst the Kula people, Malinowski brilliantly describes an inter-island system of exchange - from gifts from father to son to swapping fish for yams - around which an entire community revolves. A classic of anthropology that did much to establish the primacy of painstaking fieldwork over the earlier anecdotal reports of travel writers, journalists and missionaries, it is a compelling insight into a world now largely lost from view. With a new foreword by Adam Kuper"-- Provided by publisher.
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