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Bronislaw Malinowski

Argonauts of the Western Pacific

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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 ya… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Kuper, Adam (Vorb.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-415-73864-4
  • EAN: 9780415738644
  • Produktnummer: 15824359
  • Verlag: Taylor and Francis
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 562 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D3.2 cm 841 g
  • Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
  • Gewicht: 841

Über den Autor


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 thetwentieth century.

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