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Argonauts of the Western Pacific

By Bronislaw , Malinowski

Book information

Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Year
2014
ISBN
9780415738644, 9781315772158, 9781317677543, 1317677544
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5308531 bytes)
Series
Routledge classics
Pages
850 pages\850
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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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 exch.

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