Author: Bronislaw MalinowskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barter
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Author: Bronislaw MalinowskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barter
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Malinowski Among the Magi
Author: Bronislaw MalinowskiPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415262446
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A reissue of Malinowski's first field monograph, containing historical and theoretical material. This edition includes a major essay by Michael Young who draws on Malinowski's diary, unpublished notebooks and letters.
The Kula
Author: William A. ShackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Author: Bronislaw MalinowskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barter
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Author: Bronislaw MalinowskiPublisher: Routledge Classics (Hardcover)
ISBN: 9781138132719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book 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. "
Crime and Custom in Savage Society
Author: Bronislaw MalinowskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Sex and Repression in Savage Society
Author: Bronislaw MalinowskiPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Sex and Repression in Savage Society" by Bronislaw Malinowski. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Voyagers
Author: Nicholas ThomasPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541620054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean? In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake.
Asking and Listening
Author: Paul BohannanPublisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478608048
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Giving students the capacity to include ethnography in their own experience! Asking and Listening is the first book to trace the changing ways in which human beings have learned to look at the Others Beyond the Gate with their strange languages and stranger customs. Not a history of ethnography so much as a chronicle of its uses and potentials, Asking and Listening examines the premises of ethnography and concerns itself with a wide range of issues such as ethnocentrism and the morass of cultural relativism, the cultures of corporations, and the meaning of ethnography for government policy. It ends with an examination of the problems in charting our tomorrows: ethnography in the information age, and for the future. Through its pragmatic analysis of cultures as storehouses of alternatives in the way universal problems can and have been approached, Asking and Listening offers students not merely the opportunity to make sense of descriptions of other peoples lifeways, but makes such ethnographic knowledge immediately useful in their own lives, choices, and career plans.
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Author: Bronislaw MalinowskiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136451579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
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.