Malinowski's Kiriwina
Subtitle: fieldwork photography, 1915-1918
By: Michael W. Young.
Contributors: Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942.; Photography in ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands -- History.; Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands -- Field work.; Trobriand Islanders -- Portraits.; Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs.
Description: Kiriwina, the largest of the Trobriand Islands in eastern Papua New Guinea, is anthropology's "sacred place." It was here that Bronislaw Malinowski conducted the path-breaking fieldwork that enabled him to revolutionize British social anthropology. And it was here that he developed one of anthropology's most important tools: photography.

Malinowski's Kiriwina presents nearly two hundred of Malinowski's previously unpublished photographs of the Islanders among whom he lived between 1915 and 1918. The images are more than embellishments of his ethnography; they are a recreation in striking detail of a distant world.

Michael Young, an anthropologist and Malinowski's authorized biographer, has selected the photographs based on one of Malinowski's unpublished studies of the region, and the plan of that abandoned project has helped structure this book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-302) and index.