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Argonauts of the Western Pacific
An Account Of Native Enterprise And Adventure In The Archipelagoes Of Melanesian New Guinea
- Editore:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Collana:
- Routledge Classics
- EAN:
9780415738644
- ISBN:
0415738644
- Pagine:
- 542
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione Argonauts of the Western Pacific
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.
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