Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski
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.'No writer of our times has done more than Bronislaw Malinowski to bring together in single comprehension the warm reality of human living and the cool abstractions of science' - Robert Redfield
'A contribution of the first rank to anthropological and sociological liteature.' Economica
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), author of Argnonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) is still regarded as a pioneer anthropologist. Lecturing in both the UK and USA before and after the outbreak of the Second World War, he established himself as one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415738644 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415738644 |
| Titel | Argonauts of the Western Pacific |
| Autor | Bronislaw Malinowski |
| Serie | Routledge Classics |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2014-04-04 |
| Seitenanzahl | 542 |
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