| Description |
1 online resource (850 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Classics |
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Routledge classics.
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| Contents |
The Tolabwaga sub-clan and Their Sea-Faring PrivilegesInformant's Commentary; Free Translation; XVI; XVII; Explanation of Word Visisi'una; Free Translation; Gwara in Dobu and the Ka'ubana'i Magic; Free Translation; XIX: The Inland Kula; I; II; III; IV; Note; XX: Expeditions Between Kiriwina and Kitava; I; II; III; Notes; XXI: The Remaining Branches and Offshoots of the Kula; I; II; III; IV; V; Notes; XXII: The Meaning of the Kula; Note; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317677543 |
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1317677544 |
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