Argonauts Of The Western Pacific An Account Of Native Enterprise And Adventure In The Archipelagos Of Melanesian New Guinea
By Bronisław Malinowski
"Argonauts Of The Western Pacific An Account Of Native Enterprise And Adventure In The Archipelagos Of Melanesian New Guinea" was published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in 2014, it has 562 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Argonauts Of The Western Pacific An Account Of Native Enterprise And Adventure In The Archipelagos Of Melanesian New Guinea” Metadata:
- Title: ➤ Argonauts Of The Western Pacific An Account Of Native Enterprise And Adventure In The Archipelagos Of Melanesian New Guinea
- Author: Bronisław Malinowski
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 562
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publish Date: 2014
“Argonauts Of The Western Pacific An Account Of Native Enterprise And Adventure In The Archipelagos Of Melanesian New Guinea” Subjects and Themes:
- 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)
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL26092476M - OL1211011W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 869784822 - 880147894
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2014002982
- ISBN-13: 9780415738644
- All ISBNs: 9780415738644
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THE coastal populations of the South Sea Islands, with very few exceptions, are, or were before their extinction, expert navigators and traders.
"Argonauts Of The Western Pacific An Account Of Native Enterprise And Adventure In The Archipelagos Of Melanesian New Guinea" Description:
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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"--
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