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Bronislaw Malinowski papers (LSE).
- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropologists--Correspondance.
- Anthropologists.
- Trobriand Islands--Social life and customs.
- Trobriand Islands.
- Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942--Correspondance.
- Malinowski, Bronislaw.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Production:
- [1862-1999]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Best known for his research in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea, Malinowski went into the field for the first time in 1914, returning for multi-month trips over the next 4 years. He published his seminal ethnography - "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" - based on this research in 1922. The study was one of the first to examine the Kula Ring, generalized exchange and gift economies. One of the founders of modern-day anthropology, Malinowski advanced participant-observer methodologies, as well as theoretical contributions to functionalism. In 1938 Malinowski moved to the United States, teaching at Harvard, Yale, and other universities. He carried on fieldwork in Mexico, helping to advance anthropology there. Before completing his fieldwork, he died in 1942. The Bronislaw Malinowski Papers include his research in the Trobriand Islands, 1915-1918, as well as notes and drafts leading up to the publication of "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" in 1922.
- Notes:
- Full online collection from Yale and London School of Economics (LSE) includes includes over 12,000 pages of field notebooks, journals, early manuscript drafts and correspondence.
- Series 1: Papers relating to Malinowski's studies of the Trobriand Islands -- Series 2: Trobriand Islands fieldwork notebooks and notes -- Series 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork -- Series 6: Seminar and Lecture Papers -- Series 20: Early drafts, notes and writings -- Series 27: Correspondence with Charles Seligman.
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 17, 2016).
- Associated materials: Bronislaw Malinowski papers (Yale).
- OCLC:
- 950031265
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