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Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea

Autor Bronislaw Malinowski
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 oct 1978
First published in 1922, this classic text examines the extensive and complex trading system maintained by the Trobriand Islanders. While the main theme is economics and social organization, the power of magic, mythology and folklore are also examined.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415090940
ISBN-10: 0415090946
Pagini: 620
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 45 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Ediția:Revised edition
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

`Not only ethnographers and economists will delight in this book. The author's infinitely careful scientific method makes the material he has collected so completely trustworthy ... we commend it to all.' - The Spectator

Cuprins

INTRODUCTION: THE SUBJECT, METHOD AND SCOPE OF THIS ENQUIRY, Summary of argument. The native’s vision of his world, I— THE COUNTRY AND INHABITANTS OF THE KULA DISTRICT, II— THE NATIVES OF THE TROBRIAND ISLANDS, III— THE ESSENTIALS OF THE KULA, IV— CANOES AND SAILING V— THE CEREMONIAL BUILDING OF A WAGA, VI— LAUNCHING OF A CANOE AND CEREMONIAL VISITING —TRIBAL ECONOMICS IN THE TROBRIANDS, VII— THE DEPARTURE OF AN OVERSEAS EXPEDITION, VIII— THE FIRST HALT OF THE FLEET ON MUWA , IX— SAILING ON THE SEA-ARM OF PILOLU, X— THE STORY OF SHIPWRECK, XI— IN THE AMPHLETTSSOCIOLOGY OF THE KULA, XII— IN TEWARA AND SANAROAMYTHOLOGY OF THE KULA, XIII— ON THE BEACH OF SARUBWOYNA, XIV— THE KULA IN DOBUTECHNICALITIES OF THE EXCHANGE, XV— THE JOURNEY HOMETHE FISHING AND WORKING OF THE KALOMA SHELL, XVI— THE RETURN VISIT OF THE DOBUANS TO SINAKETA, XVII— MAGIC AND THE KULA, XIX— THE INLAND KULA, XVIII— THE POWER OF WORDS IN MAGICSOME LINGUISTIC DATA, XX— EXPEDITIONS BETWEEN KIRIWINA AND KITAVA, XXI— THE REMAINING BRANCHES AND OFFSHOOTS OF THE KULA, XXII— THE MEANING OF THE KULA

Notă biografică

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 the twentieth century.


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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 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.