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Originally published in 1922, this early work on anthropology is
both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details
the lives and customs of the Trobriand who live on an island chain
in the western Pacific and is a highly regarded study of their
tribal culture. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly
recommended for anyone interested in ethnology. Many of the
earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and
before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic
works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the
original text and artwork.
First published in 1922, this classic text examines the extensive
and complex trading system maintained by the Trobriand Islanders.
While the main theme is economics and social organization, the
power of magic, mythology and folklore are also examined.
The volume presents the diary of one of the great anthropologists
at a crucial time in his career. Malinowski's major works grew out
of his findings on field trips to New Guinea and North Melanesia
from 1914-1918. His journals cover a considerable part of that
period of pioneer research. The diary contains observations of
native life and customs and vivid descriptions of landscapes. Many
entries reveal his approach to his work and the sources of his
thought. In his introduction, Raymond Firth discusses the
significance of the notebooks which formed the basis for this
volume. First published in 1967.
Series Information: Bronislaw Malinowski: Collected Works
Published, posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture.
This volume discusses aspects of small scale societies, including the study of the mental processes, as well as indigenous economics and law.
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.
Originally published in 1926. A study of crime and customs of the
rapidly vanishing savage races. Contents Include: Primitive Law and
Order - Rules of Law in Religious Acts - Law of Marriage - Rules of
Custom Defined - Melanesian Economics - Primitive Crime and its
Punishment - Sorcery and Suicide - Factors of Social Cohesion. -
Primitive Law and Restoration of Order. Illustrated. Many of the
earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and
before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home
Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high
quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The main question of our age is how we live our lives. As we
struggle with this question, we face others. How do we handle ideas
and knowledge, both our own and those of others? What relationship
to ideas do we want? Whose ideas do we want to be surrounded by?
Where do we want to think? Most choose, or have the choice made for
them, according to what family, colleagues, and friends do and say
and what we read about, and a more or less rational calculation of
the odds. Modern ecology results from the shift in thinking
generated by quantum physics and systems theory, from the old view
based on reductionism, mechanics, and fixed quantities to a new
view based on holistic systems where qualities are contingent on
the observer and on each other. This perception changes how people
treat ideas and facts, certainties and uncertainties, and affects
both art and science. Worldwide it is part of the process of
understanding the current crisis in the environment, and the
balance of economy, creativity, and control required in our
response. The book's starting point is the growing role that
information has played in industrial economies since the 1800s and
especially in the last thirty years. It is an attempt to identify
ecology of thinking and learning. It is also based on the need to
escape from old, industrial ways and become more attuned to how
people actually borrow, develop, and share ideas. Throughout the
book, Howkins asks questions and offers signposts. He gives no
guarantee that creative ecologies will be sustainable, but shows
what should be aimed for.
Crime and Custom in Savage Society represents Bronislaw
Malinowski's major discussion of the relationship between law and
society. Throughout his career he constructed a coherent science of
anthropology, one modeled on the highest standards of practice and
theory. Methodology steps forward as a core element of the
refashioned anthropology, one that stipulates the manner in which
anthropological data should be acquired. Malinowski's choice of law
was not inevitable, but neither was it unmotivated. Anyone
interested in understanding the social structure and organization
of societies cannot avoid dealing with the concept of "law," even
if it is to deny its presence. Law and anthropology have shown a
natural affinity for one another, sharing a beneficial history of
using the methods and viewpoints of one to inform and advance the
other. The best lesson Malinowski provides us with comes in the
last paragraphs of Crime and Custom in Savage Society: "The true
problem is not to study how human life submits to rules; the real
problem is how the rules become adapted to life." On that question,
he has left us richly inspired to continue the quest.
Crime and Custom in Savage Society represents Bronislaw
Malinowski's major discussion of the relationship between law and
society. Throughout his career he constructed a coherent science of
anthropology, one modeled on the highest standards of practice and
theory. Methodology steps forward as a core element of the
refashioned anthropology, one that stipulates the manner in which
anthropological data should be acquired.
Malinowski's choice of law was not inevitable, but neither was
it unmotivated. Anyone interested in understanding the social
structure and organization of societies cannot avoid dealing with
the concept of "law," even if it is to deny its presence. Law and
anthropology have shown a natural affinity for one another, sharing
a beneficial history of using the methods and viewpoints of one to
inform and advance the other.
The best lesson Malinowski provides us with comes in the last
paragraphs of Crime and Custom in Savage Society "The true problem
is not to study how human life submits to rules; the real problem
is how the rules become adapted to life." On that question, he has
left us richly inspired to continue the quest.
The author takes into account the various views of religion which
Tylor, Frazer, Marett, and Durkheim have given and goes on from
there to provide his own conception that religion and magic are
ways men have to make the world acceptable.
The first part of a two volume classic devoted to the agriculture
and agricultural rites of the Trobriand Islanders. This work looks
at the signigicance of agriculture in the Trobriand Islands.
The main question of our age is how we live our lives. As we
struggle with this question, we face others. How do we handle ideas
and knowledge, both our own and those of others? What relationship
to ideas do we want? Whose ideas do we want to be surrounded by?
Where do we want to think? Most choose, or have the choice made for
them, according to what family, colleagues, and friends do and say
and what we read about, and a more or less rational calculation of
the odds.
Modern ecology results from the shift in thinking generated by
quantum physics and systems theory, from the old view based on
reductionism, mechanics, and fixed quantities to a new view based
on holistic systems where qualities are contingent on the observer
and on each other. This perception changes how people treat ideas
and facts, certainties and uncertainties, and affects both art and
science. Worldwide it is part of the process of understanding the
current crisis in the environment, and the balance of economy,
creativity, and control required in our response.
The book's starting point is the growing role that information
has played in industrial economies since the 1800s and especially
in the last thirty years. It is an attempt to identify ecology of
thinking and learning. It is also based on the need to escape from
old, industrial ways and become more attuned to how people actually
borrow, develop, and share ideas. Throughout the book, Howkins asks
questions and offers signposts. He gives no guarantee that creative
ecologies will be sustainable, but shows what should be aimed
for.
Originally published in 1926. A study of crime and customs of the
rapidly vanishing savage races. Contents Include: Primitive Law and
Order - Rules of Law in Religious Acts - Law of Marriage - Rules of
Custom Defined - Melanesian Economics - Primitive Crime and its
Punishment - Sorcery and Suicide - Factors of Social Cohesion. -
Primitive Law and Restoration of Order. Illustrated. Many of the
earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and
before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home
Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high
quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Published, posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a
reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture.
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