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010			_a 2014002982
020			_a9780415738644 (paperback)
020			_a9781315772158 (ebook)
082	0	0	_a305.8009953 _223
100	1		_aMalinowski, Bronislaw, _d1884-1942.
245	1	0	_aArgonauts of the Western Pacific : _ban account of Native Enterprise and adventure in the Archipelagos of Melanesian New Guinea / _cBronislaw Malinowski ; with a foreword by Adam Kuper.
264		1	_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2014.
300			_axviii, 541 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aRoutledge classics
500			_aOriginally published: London : G. Routledge & sons, ltd., 1922.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a""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""-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aBarter _zPapua New Guinea _zTrobriand Islands.
650		0	_aEthnology _zPapua New Guinea _zTrobriand Islands.
650		0	_aFolklore _zPapua New Guinea _zTrobriand Islands.
650		0	_aKula exchange _zPapua New Guinea _zTrobriand Islands.
650		0	_aMassim (Papua New Guinean people) _xRites and ceremonies.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. _2
651		0	_aTrobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) _xSocial life and customs.
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