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Argonauts of the western Pacific : an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagos of Melanesian New Guinea / Bronislaw Malinowski ; with a foreword by Adam Kuper.

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"Bronislaw Malinowski's pathbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific is at once a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology. Malinowski argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never lose sight is 'to grasp the nat...

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Main Author: Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
Series:Routledge classics.
Subjects:
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs.
Kula exchange > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Massim (Papua New Guinean people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Ethnology > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Folklore > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Barter > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.
Barter.
Ethnology.
Folklore.
Kula exchange.
Manners and customs.
Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands.

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Call Number: GN671.N5 M3 2014eb
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