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Title: Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
Author: Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (1884–1942) Info
Language: English (U.K.)
Original publication date: 1922
Keywords: Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands.
Kula exchange -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands.
Massim (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Related Library of Congress catalog page: 22016057
Related Open Library catalog page (for source): OL17864424M
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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski, (1884–1942) was a British anthropologist of Polish descent. Born in Kraków, Poland, he studied at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, and in Leipzig. He moved to London in 1910. In 1914 Malinowski took part in an expedition to New Guinea and Melanesia and spent the next four years studying the people of the Trobriand Islands of the Southwest Pacific. He began teaching at the University of London in 1924 and became professor of social anthropology in 1927. Between 1939 and 1942 he was a visiting professor at Yale University. He was the founder of functionalism, a school in anthropology which maintains that cultures should be studied in terms of their particular internal dynamics.
This book, a classic in anthropology, describes in great detail the Kula system of the Trobriand Islands in New Guinea. In the Kula, valuables are circulated among the various islands in a complicated, ceremonial way. This system is a kind of “gift” culture, in which status is not obtained from the possession of material objects, but by handling them or giving them away, similar to the potlatch of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States. This also has some relevance to the modern “Open Source” movement.
The book itself had a huge impact on anthropology, because of Malinowski’s at that time novel approach of anthropological research, in which the author immerged himself in the culture he studied, using informal interviews, direct observation, participation in the life of the group, and collective discussions.
Bibliography.
1913 Family among the Australian aborigines; a sociological study.
1922 Argonauts of the Western Pacific.
1926 Crime and Custom in Savage Society.
1927 Sex and Repression in Savage Society.
1927 Father in primitive psychology.
1929 The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia; an Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage and Family Life among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea.
1935 Coral gardens and their magic; a study of the methods of tilling the soil and of agricultural rites in the Trobriand Islands.
1936 Foundations of faith and morals; an anthropological analysis of primitive beliefs and conduct with special reference to the fundamental problems of religion and ethics.
1944 Freedom and civilization.
1945 Dynamics of Culture Change; an Inquiry into Race Relations in Africa.
1948 Magic, Science, and Religion.
1967 A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term (translated from the Polish by Norbert Guterman).
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