Argonauts of the Western Pacific
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific

  1. 542 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Argonauts of the Western Pacific

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781317677536
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: The Subject, Method and Scope of This Enquiry
  11. I: The Country and Inhabitants of the Kula District
  12. II: The Natives of the Trobriand Islands
  13. III: The Essentials of the Kula
  14. IV: Canoes and Sailing
  15. V: The Ceremonial Building of a Waga
  16. VI: Launching of a Canoe and Ceremonial Visiting—Tribal Economics in the Trobriands
  17. VII: The Departure of an Overseas Expedition
  18. VIII: The First Halt of the Fleet on Muwa
  19. IX: Sailing on the Sea-Arm of Pilolu
  20. X: The Story of Shipwreck
  21. XI: In the Amphletts—Sociology of the Kula
  22. XII: In Tewara and Sanaroa—Mythology of the Kula
  23. XIII: On the Beach of Sarubwoyna
  24. XIV: The Kula in Dobu—Technicalities of the Exchange
  25. XV: The Journey Home—The Fishing and Working of the Kaloma Shell
  26. XVI: The Return Visit of the Dobuans to Sinaketa
  27. XVII: Magic and the Kula
  28. XVIII: The Power of Words in Magic—Some Linguistic Data
  29. XIX: The Inland Kula
  30. XX: Expeditions Between Kiriwina and Kitava
  31. XXI: The Remaining Branches and Offshoots of the Kula
  32. XXII: The Meaning of the Kula
  33. Index