Argonauts of the Western PacificRoutledge, 16. apr. 2014 - 562 sider 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. |
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The Natives of the Trobriand Islands | |
The Essentials of the Kula | |
Canoes and Sailing | |
In the AmphlettsSociology of the Kula | |
In Tewara and SanaroaMythology of the Kula | |
On the Beach of Sarubwoyna | |
The Kula in DobuTechnicalities of the Exchange | |
The Journey HomeThe Fishing and Working of the Kaloma Shell | |
The Return Visit of the Dobuans to Sinaketa | |
Magic and the Kula | |
The Power of Words in MagicSome Linguistic Data | |
The Ceremonial Building of a Waga | |
Launching of a Canoe and Ceremonial VisitingTribal Economics in the Trobriands | |
The Departure of an Overseas Expedition | |
The First Halt of the Fleet on Muwa | |
Sailing on the SeaArm of Pilolu | |
The Story of Shipwreck | |
The Inland Kula | |
Expeditions Between Kiriwina and Kitava | |
The Remaining Branches and Offshoots of the Kula | |
The Meaning of the Kula | |
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and ... Bronislaw Malinowski Begrenset visning - 2002 |
Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and ... Bronislaw Malinowski Begrenset visning - 2002 |