1st Edition
Routledge Revivals: The Ethnography of Malinowski (1979) The Trobriand Islands 1915-18
Edited By Michael W. Young
Copyright 1979
274 Pages
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Routledge
274 Pages
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Routledge
274 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Habitat and economy; Editor’s note; 1. An outline of Trobriand economics 2. Gardening; Part Two: Kinship, marriage and land; Editor’s note; 3. Exogamy and incest 4. Dogmas of procreation and paternity 5. Marriage 6. Principles of land tenure; Part Three: The Kula; Editor’s note; 7. Essentials of the Kula 8. Technicalities of the Kula 9. Perils, magic and myths; Bibliography; Index
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Michael W. Young
