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Bronislaw Malinowski is one of the founding fathers of modern
social anthropology and the innovator of the technique of prolonged
and intensive fieldwork. His writings about the Trobriand Islands
of Papua were in their time the most formative influence on the
work of British social anthropologists and are of perennial
interest and importance. They produced a revolution in the aims and
field techniques of social anthropologists, and the method he
created is that now normally used by anthropologists in the field.
Malinowski's field material remains compulsory reading for
students. First published in 1979, this book draws from the major
monographs of Malinowski to compile a selection of his writings on
the Trobriand Islanders. In presenting a concise Trobriand
ethnography in one volume, the author gives balanced coverage of
economic life, kinship, marriage and land tenure, and to the system
of ceremonial exchange known as the Kula. He also provides, in an
introductory essay, a critical assessment of Malinowski the
ethnographer, and gives a brief account of the Trobriands in a
modern perspective.
Bronislaw Malinowski is one of the founding fathers of modern
social anthropology and the innovator of the technique of prolonged
and intensive fieldwork. His writings about the Trobriand Islands
of Papua were in their time the most formative influence on the
work of British social anthropologists and are of perennial
interest and importance. They produced a revolution in the aims and
field techniques of social anthropologists, and the method he
created is that now normally used by anthropologists in the field.
Malinowski's field material remains compulsory reading for
students. First published in 1979, this book draws from the major
monographs of Malinowski to compile a selection of his writings on
the Trobriand Islanders. In presenting a concise Trobriand
ethnography in one volume, the author gives balanced coverage of
economic life, kinship, marriage and land tenure, and to the system
of ceremonial exchange known as the Kula. He also provides, in an
introductory essay, a critical assessment of Malinowski the
ethnographer, and gives a brief account of the Trobriands in a
modern perspective.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1983.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1983.
The Melanesians of Goodenough Island, off the eastern coast of New
Guinea, have developed the principle of gift-giving to an
extraordinary degree. Instead of resorting to arms in their
quarrels or demanding compensation for offences, they present
enemies and offenders with pigs and yams in order to shame them.
This custom of coercive gift-giving operates at various
organizational levels and through two main institutional forms:
competitive food exchange and festivals. Dr Young analyses in depth
the social and political structure of a single village, dealing in
detail with its system of social control and those vexed topics of
Melanesian ethnography - leadership and sorcery. Of particular
interest is the author's description of the configuration of values
which makes food-giving-to-shame meaningful to the Goodenough
Islander for whom 'happiness is a rotting yam', and the worst evil
'hunger-producing sorcery'. The careful use of case material gives
vivid insights into the lifestyle, world view and humanity of these
proud and fractious people.
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