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  • A DIARY IN THE STRICTEST SENSE OF THE TERM
    BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
    The volume presents the diary of one of the great anthropologists at a crucial time in his career. Malinowski's major works grew out of his findings on field trips to New Guinea and North Melanesia from 1914-1918. His journals cover a considerable part of that period of pioneer research.The diary contains observations of native life and customs and vivid descriptions of landsca...

    $1,420.00

  • CREATIVE ECOLOGIES
    BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI / JOHN HOWKINS
    The main question of our age is how we live our lives. As we struggle with this question, we face others. How do we handle ideas and knowledge, both our own and those of others? What relationship to ideas do we want? Whose ideas do we want to be surrounded by? Where do we want to think? Most choose, or have the choice made for them, according to what family, colleagues, and fri...

    $1,360.00

  • FREEDOM AND CIVILIZATION
    BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
    From the early days of Hitler’s rise to power, Bronislaw Malinowski was an outspoken opponent of National Socialism. In response to this, Malinowski began to devote much attention to the analysis of war, from its development throughout history to its disastrous manifestations at the start of the Second World War. Freedom and Civilization, first published in 1947, is the final e...

    $1,260.00

  • ARGONAUTS OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC
    BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
    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 native’s point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.’ Through vivid ev...

    $740.00

  • A SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF CULTURE AND OTHER ESSAYS
    BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
    Published, posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture. ...

    $1,560.00

  • CORAL GARDENS AND THEIR MAGIC
    BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
    The first part of a two volume classic devoted to the agriculture and agricultural rites of the Trobriand Islanders. This work looks at the signigicance of agriculture in the Trobriand Islands. ...

    $1,320.00

  • MAN AND CULTURE
    BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
    This volume is a reassessment of Malinowski's work by a group of his former pupils and colleagues. A frank evaluation, not a eulogy, it examines the real and lasting importance of Malinowski's contribution to a range of subjects. ...

    $1,320.00

  • CORAL GARDENS AND THEIR MAGIC
    BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
    The concluding part of Coral Gardens and Their Magic provides a linguistic commentary to the ethnography on agriculture. Malinowski gives a full description of the language of the Trobrianders as an aspect of culture. ...

    $1,320.00

  • SEX AND REPRESSION IN SAVAGE SOCIETY
    BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
    This volume explores and challenges the applicatio psychoanalytic theory to the study of traditional societies. ...

    $1,940.00

  • SEX AND REPRESSION IN SAVAGE SOCIETY
    BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
    During the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski found himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands, off the eastern coast of New Guinea. By living among the people he studied there, speaking their language and participating in their activities, he invented what became known as 'participant-observation'. This new type of ethnographic study was to have a h...

    $580.00

  • ARGONAUTS OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC
    BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI
    First published in 1922, this classic text examines the extensive and complex trading system maintained by the Trobriand Islanders. While the main theme is economics and social organization, the power of magic, mythology and folklore are also examined. ...

    $2,420.00