Title: Argonauts of the western Pacific
Subtitle: an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
First published: 1922
Description: "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"--
Subjects: Ethnology, Folklore, Barter, Magic, Anthropology, Folklore, papua new guinea, Trobriand islands (papua new guinea), Ethnologie, Troc, SCIENCE, Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Economic anthropology, Economic anthropology--papua new guinea--trobriand islands, Ethnology--new guinea, Barter--papua new guinea--trobriand islands, Folklore--new guinea, Gn671.n5 m3 1984, Social life and customs, Massim (Papua New Guinean people), Rites and ceremonies, Kula exchange, Ethnology, new guinea, Economic conditions, Magic--papua new guinea--trobriand islands, Folklore--papua new guinea--trobriand islands, Ethnology--papua new guinea--trobriand islands, Magic, papuan, Papua new guinea, social life and customs, Ethnology, papua new guinea, trobriand islands, Papua new guinea, history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Manners and customs, Mœurs et coutumes, Kula, SOCIAL SCIENCE, General, Discrimination & Race Relations, Minority Studies, Kula exchange--papua new guinea--trobriand islands, Massim (papua new guinean people)--rites and ceremonies, Gn671.n5 m3 2014, 305.8009953, Soc002000
Places: New Guinea, Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea), Papua New Guinea, Woodlark Islands (Papua New Guinea)
LC classification: GN671.N5 M3