{"title":"Bronislaw Malinowski","description":"\u003cp\u003eBronislaw Malinowski’s works delve into the depths of anthropology, offering insightful explorations of culture, society, and human behaviour. His studies, including notable titles like \u003cem\u003eArgonauts of the Western Pacific\u003c\/em\u003e, reveal intricate observations of tribal life and social structures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly detailed, thought-provoking analyses that challenge conventional notions of sexuality, repression, and human relationships. 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Malinowski argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never lose sight is to ‘grasp the native’s point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough vivid evocations of Kula life, including the building and launching of canoes, fishing expeditions, and the role of myth and magic amongst the Kula people, Malinowski brilliantly describes an inter-island system of exchange—from gifts from father to son to swapping fish for yams—around which an entire community revolves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA classic of anthropology that did much to establish the primacy of painstaking fieldwork over the earlier anecdotal reports of travel writers, journalists, and missionaries, it is a compelling insight into a world now largely lost from view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a new foreword by Adam Kuper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605038383340,"sku":"9781138132719","price":247.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781138132719-argonauts-of-the-western-pacific.jpg?v=1778121350"},{"product_id":"argonauts-of-the-western-pacific-by-bronislaw-malinowski-9780415738644","title":"Argonauts of the Western Pacific","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBronislaw Malinowski’s pathbreaking \u003ci\u003eArgonauts of the Western Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology. 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By living among the people he studied there, speaking their language and participating in their activities, he invented what became known as \u003cem\u003eparticipant-observation\u003c\/em\u003e. This new type of ethnographic study was to have a huge impact on the emerging discipline of anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSex and Repression in Savage Society\u003c\/em\u003e, Malinowski applied his experiences on the Trobriand Islands to the study of sexuality, and the attendant issues of eroticism, obscenity, incest, oppression, power, and parenthood. 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