Argonauts of the Western Pacific

An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea

by Bronislaw Malinowski & James George Frazer (Author)

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"Argonauts of the Western Pacific" by Bronisław Malinowski is an ethnography published in 1922. This groundbreaking work documents the Trobriand people of the Kiriwana island chain near New Guinea, focusing on their complex trading system called the kula. Malinowski revolutionized anthropology by practicing "participant observation"—living among his subjects rather than studying them from afar. The book redefined ethnographic fieldwork and established intensive fieldwork as the foundation of modern social anthropology, earning comparison to Shakespeare's impact on literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.	2017-10-26	Project Gutenberg	English	—	Public domain (USA)	Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)