02465cam a2200349 4500 8017 20181127184911.0 140210r20141922enk b 001 0 eng 2014002982 9780415738644 (paperback) 9781315772158 (ebook) 305.8009953 23 Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942. 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. London ; New York : Routledge, 2014. xviii, 541 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Routledge classics Originally published: London : G. Routledge & sons, ltd., 1922. Includes bibliographical references and index. ""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. Barter Papua New Guinea Trobriand Islands. Ethnology Papua New Guinea Trobriand Islands. Folklore Papua New Guinea Trobriand Islands. Kula exchange Papua New Guinea Trobriand Islands. Massim (Papua New Guinean people) Rites and ceremonies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs. 6901 6901 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2021-08-09 12101 12 8 305.8 MAL 30012918 2024-09-13 00:00:00 2024-08-07 2018-11-27 MAIN 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2021-08-09 18738 12101 305.8 MAL C.1 30019864 2024-09-02 00:00:00 2018-11-27 MAIN 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2021-08-09 18739 12101 0 305.8 MAL C.2 30019917 2024-09-02 00:00:00 2018-11-27 MAIN 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2021-08-09 18740 12101 0 305.8 MAL C.3 30019868 2024-09-02 00:00:00 2018-11-27 MAIN