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A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term (Paperback, Anniversary and Revised and and ed.)
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When it was first published (in 1967, posthumously), Bronislaw
Malinowski's diary, covering the period of his fieldwork in
1914-1915 and 1917-1918 in New Guinea and the Trobriand Islands,
set off a storm of controversy. Many anthropologists felt that the
publication of the diary-which Raymond Firth describes as "this
revealing, egocentric, obsessional document"-was a profound
disservice to the memory of one of the giant figures in the history
of anthropology. Almost certainly never intended to be published,
Malinowski's diary was intensely personal and brutally honest. He
kept it, he said, "as a means of self-analysis." Reviews ranged
from "it is to the discredit of all concerned that the diary has
now been committed to print" to "fascinating reading." Twenty years
have passed, and Raymond Firth suggests that the book has moved
over to a more central place in the literature of anthropological
reflection. In 1967, Clifford Geertz felt that the "gross,
tiresome" diary revealed Malinowski as "a crabbed,
self-preoccupied, hypochondriacal narcissist, whose fellow-feeling
for the people he lived with was limited in the extreme." But in
1988, Geertz referred to the diary as a "backstage masterpiece of
anthropology, our The Double Helix." Similarly in 1987, James
Clifford called it "a crucial document for the history of
anthropology."
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