One Hundred Years of Argonauts : Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology / edited by Chris Hann and Deborah James.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hann, Chris, editor.

James, Deborah, editor.

Series:

Max Planck studies in anthropology and economy ; Volume 13.

Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy Series ; Volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Philosophy.

Ethnology.

Economic anthropology.

Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942. Argonauts of the western Pacific.

Malinowski, Bronislaw.

Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, [2025]

Summary:

No detailed description available for "One Hundred Years of Argonauts".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction: Argonauts Revisited

Part I Bronisław Malinowski and His Argonauts in Context

1 Cultural Capital and Economic Stringency: Reality and Myth in Bronisław Malinowski’s Socioeconomic Background

2 Tenerife 1921 The Writing of Argonauts

3 Malinowski’s New Paradigm

4 Malinowski and the Politics of Economic Anthropology: Between Imperial Trusteeship and Colonial Trade

Part II Economy, Economics, and Epistemics

5 Compulsion to Work? Malinowski and the Labor Question

6 On Tribal and Other Economies

7 Malinowski’s Place in the History of Economic Thought

8 Can Economic Anthropology Escape from Primitive Economics? Thinking Ethnographically from the Brazilian Oikos

Part III Cosmology, History, and Social Organization

9 Baloma: The Spirits of the Kula in the Trobriand Islands

10 The Archaeology of the Kula and Malinowski’s Notion of Economy

11 Using Laozi to Interpret the Kula Ring: Rethinking the Dual Chieftainship in Kiriwina

Part IV Adaptations in Space and Time

12 Passing On, Passing Around, and Passing Through: Urban Inheritance in South Africa as Circulation

13 The Anthropological Turn in the Sociology of Money

14 Digital Argonauts: From Kula Ring to Bush Internet in the Western Pacific

Afterword

Index

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ISBN:

9781805395225

180539522X

9781805395232

1805395238