Bronisław Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities On the Centenary of Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Grażyna Kubica and Dariusz Brzeziński, Revisiting the Life and Work of Bronisław Malinowski : On the Centenary of Argonauts of the Western Pacific

PART I. BRONISŁAW MALINOWSKI: KNOWN AND UNKNOWN

1. Grażyna Kubica, Bronisław Malinowski – The (Somewhat Anglicized and Cosmopolitan) Pole: Biographical-Anthropological Reflections on His Polish Identity

2. Patrick Burke, Our Ancestors: Making Sense of Bronisław Malinowski and Elsie Masson

PART II. REVISITING MALINOWSKI’S INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND

3. Petr Skalník, An Argonaut from Kraków: Pre-field Malinowski as a Theorist

4. Krzysztof Łukasiewicz, Bronisław Malinowski in the Laboratories of Leipzig

5. Adam Kuper, Malinowski: A Modernist in His Way

PART III. MALINOWSKI’S INTELLECTUAL RELATIONS: NEW INSIGHTS

6. Natalija Jakubova, ‘I Am Not Really a Real Character’: Malinowski, Witkiewicz and the Pitfalls of Making Oneself a ‘Character’

7. Lena Magnone, Malinowski and the Disciples of Freud: Otto Rank, Ernest Jones and Wilhelm Reich

8. Anna Engelking, Under the Wing of the Rockefeller Foundation: On the Cooperation of Bronisław Malinowski and His Polish Student Józef Obrębski

PART IV. RECONSIDERATIONS OF INTERPRETIVE FRAMEWORKS

9. Andreas Lipowsky, Bronisław Malinowski: An Icon of a Body-centric Anthropology?

10. Andrzej Kisielewski, ‘The Gardens Are, in a Way, a Work of Art’: Bronisław Malinowski’s Social Anthropology as Anthropology of Art

11. Mateusz Stępień, Exploring the Intersection of Law, Culture, and Biology: Tensions and Unfulfilled Potential in Malinowski’s Legal Thought

PART V. MALINOWSKI AND ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY

12. linus s. digim’Rina, Gimwala and Kula: Malinowski’s Living Ethnography

13. Marta Songin-Mokrzan, What If We Had Followed Malinowski Instead of Staying on the Trobriand Islands? Notes on the Anthropological Multiverse

14. Dariusz Brzeziński, Bronisław Malinowski and the Anthropology of Nostalgia

Aleksandar Bošković, Afterword: Malinowski in Context

Biography

Grażyna Kubica is Professor in Social Science at the Social Anthropology Section in the Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków.

Dariusz Brzeziński is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds.

"This book is a remarkable cornucopia. Its chapters include the voices of a grandson of Malinowski and of a native of the Melanesian islands where he carried out his most important fieldwork. The great man himself would surely appreciate the inspiration his publications provide a century later, in so many disciplines. He would be less enthusiastic about the attention paid to a private diary and his personal circumstances more generally — but he would understand that these are necessary elements in the history of science. There is irony in the fact that, in a discipline that was always constructed upon nostalgia vis-à-vis the world, an arch-presentist should become the focus of so much nostalgia within the field itself. We celebrate the moment when a brash émigré from a continental empire invoked a new theory and method to launch a seemingly coherent and innovative discipline in the most prestigious universities of a much more powerful empire. But these chapters also probe the limitations of Malinowski‘s paradigm, such as his conception of culture. Later publications took more account of „culture change“, but he could never abandon a romantic Central European view of the world as made up of distinctive cultures, implicitly identified with peoples or nations."

 Chris Hann, Emeritus Director, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.