an account of Native Enterprise and adventure in the Archipelagos of Melanesian New Guinea Malinowski, Bronislaw 1884-1942 creator text bibliography enk 2014 monographic eng

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xviii, 541 pages ; 24 cm ""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""-- Bronislaw Malinowski ; with a foreword by Adam Kuper. Originally published: London : G. Routledge & sons, ltd., 1922. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 305.8009953 9780415738644 (paperback) 9781315772158 (ebook) 2014002982 140210 20181127184911.0 8017