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The personal and diplomatic background of Malinowski’s Oaxaca project is reviewed, together with the origins and development of his views on economics before, during, and after his fieldwork in Melanesia. The reasons for the fitful nature of the handling of Malinowski’s Oaxaca project materials following his death in 1942 are explored, and the themes and content of his work on Trobriand economics are systematically compared with those of his work in Oaxaca. Implications of his incomplete Oaxaca project, and of other late-career writings, for his place in the history of economic anthropology are considered.}, keywords = {economics, Latin America, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseMalinowski’s unpublished and long unavailable field notebooks from 1940 are examined to show how his fieldwork influenced the organization and content of the co-authored preliminary report (with Julio de la Fuente) of his unfinished Oaxaca Valley, Mexico project. The personal and diplomatic background of Malinowski’s Oaxaca project is reviewed, together with the origins and development of his views on economics before, during, and after his fieldwork in Melanesia. The reasons for the fitful nature of the handling of Malinowski’s Oaxaca project materials following his death in 1942 are explored, and the themes and content of his work on Trobriand economics are systematically compared with those of his work in Oaxaca. Implications of his incomplete Oaxaca project, and of other late-career writings, for his place in the history of economic anthropology are considered.Closehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308275X15615926Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseBook Gnecchi-Ruscone, Anna Paini ElisabettaTides of Innovation in Oceania: Value, materiality and place ANU Press, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-76046-092-1.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: material culture, Oceania@book{gnecchi-ruscone_tides_2017, title = {Tides of Innovation in Oceania: Value, materiality and place}, author = {Anna Paini Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1rfsrtb}, isbn = {978-1-76046-092-1}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-01}, publisher = {ANU Press}, abstract = {Tides of Innovation in Oceania is directly inspired by Epeli Hau‘ofa’s vision of the Pacific as a ‘Sea of Islands’; the image of tides recalls the cyclical movement of waves, with its unpredictable consequences. The authors propose tides of innovation as a fluid concept, unbound and open to many directions. This perspective is explored through ethnographic case studies centred on deeply elaborated analyses of locally inflected agencies involved in different transforming contexts. Three interwoven themes—value, materiality and place—provide a common thread.}, keywords = {material culture, Oceania}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } CloseTides of Innovation in Oceania is directly inspired by Epeli Hau‘ofa’s vision of the Pacific as a ‘Sea of Islands’; the image of tides recalls the cyclical movement of waves, with its unpredictable consequences. The authors propose tides of innovation as a fluid concept, unbound and open to many directions. This perspective is explored through ethnographic case studies centred on deeply elaborated analyses of locally inflected agencies involved in different transforming contexts. Three interwoven themes—value, materiality and place—provide a common thread.Closehttp://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1rfsrtbCloseMiscellaneous Rex, Bronislaw Malinowski: Don’t Let The Cosplay Fool You 2017.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: work about Malinowski@misc{rex_bronislaw_2017, title = {Bronislaw Malinowski: Don’t Let The Cosplay Fool You}, author = {Rex}, url = {https://savageminds.org/2017/05/15/bronislaw-malinowski-dont-let-the-cosplay-fool-you/}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-01}, urldate = {2017-09-05}, journal = {Savage Minds}, abstract = {If there’s one picture that epitomizes White Guys Doing Research, it’s this one: The canonical author of the canonical book, naked black people, white guy in white clothes being White …}, keywords = {work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {misc} } CloseIf there’s one picture that epitomizes White Guys Doing Research, it’s this one: The canonical author of the canonical book, naked black people, white guy in white clothes being White …Closehttps://savageminds.org/2017/05/15/bronislaw-malinowski-dont-let-the-cosplay-foo[...]CloseJournal Article Niehaus, IsakAnthropology at the dawn of apartheid: Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski’s South African engagements, 1919–1934 Focaal, 2017 (77), pp. 103–117, 2017, ISSN: 15585263.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Africa, history of anthropology, work about Malinowski@article{niehaus_anthropology_2017, title = {Anthropology at the dawn of apartheid: Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski’s South African engagements, 1919–1934}, author = {Isak Niehaus}, url = {http://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/focaal/2017/77/focaal770109.xml}, doi = {10.3167/fcl.2017.770109}, issn = {15585263}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-01}, urldate = {2017-06-19}, journal = {Focaal}, volume = {2017}, number = {77}, pages = {103--117}, abstract = {In this article, I focus on different strategies of anthropological engagement with government and potential funders. I do so by considering the diverse nature of Alfred Radcliffe-Brown and Bronislaw Malinowski’s encounters with South African authorities, between 1919 and 1934. I suggest that Radcliffe-Brown saw South Africa as an integrated society in which segregation was impossible, and advocated the sympathetic scientific understanding of cultural difference within this context. By contrast, Malinowski was committed to a romantic vision of holistic cultures, collaborated directly with colonial authorities, and argued for a policy of effective cultural and territorial segregation. The strategies had important longterm consequences and costs, calculable only from the privileged vantage point of history.}, keywords = {Africa, history of anthropology, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseIn this article, I focus on different strategies of anthropological engagement with government and potential funders. I do so by considering the diverse nature of Alfred Radcliffe-Brown and Bronislaw Malinowski’s encounters with South African authorities, between 1919 and 1934. I suggest that Radcliffe-Brown saw South Africa as an integrated society in which segregation was impossible, and advocated the sympathetic scientific understanding of cultural difference within this context. By contrast, Malinowski was committed to a romantic vision of holistic cultures, collaborated directly with colonial authorities, and argued for a policy of effective cultural and territorial segregation. The strategies had important longterm consequences and costs, calculable only from the privileged vantage point of history.Closehttp://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/focaal/2017/77/focaal770109.xmlCheck for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Rivera, Patrick S‘Freud's speculations in ethnology’: A reflection on anthropology's encounter with psychoanalysis The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 98 (3), pp. 755–778, 2017, ISSN: 1745-8315.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: history of anthropology, psychology@article{rivera_freuds_2017, title = {‘Freud's speculations in ethnology’: A reflection on anthropology's encounter with psychoanalysis}, author = { Patrick S. Rivera}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-8315.12616/abstract}, doi = {10.1111/1745-8315.12616}, issn = {1745-8315}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-01}, journal = {The International Journal of Psychoanalysis}, volume = {98}, number = {3}, pages = {755--778}, abstract = {In the early 20th century, many analysts – Freud and Ernest Jones in particular – were confident that cultural anthropologists would demonstrate the universal nature of the Oedipus complex and other unconscious phenomena. Collaboration between the two disciplines, however, was undermined by a series of controversies surrounding the relationship between psychology and culture. This paper re-examines the three episodes that framed anthropology's early encounter with psychoanalysis, emphasizing the important works and their critical reception. Freud's Totem and Taboo began the interdisciplinary dialogue, but it was Bronislaw Malinowski's embrace of psychoanalysis – a development anticipated through a close reading of his personal diaries – that marked a turning point in relations between the two disciplines. Malinowski argued that an avuncular (rather than an Oedipal) complex existed in the Trobriand Islands. Ernest Jones’ critical dismissal of this theory alienated Malinowski from psychoanalysis and ended ethnographers’ serious exploration of Freudian thought. A subsequent ethnographic movement, ‘culture and personality,’ was erroneously seen by many anthropologists as a product of Freudian theory. When ‘culture and personality’ was abandoned, anthropologists believed that psychoanalysis had been discredited as well – a narrative that still informs the historiography of the discipline and its rejection of psychoanalytical theory.}, keywords = {history of anthropology, psychology}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseIn the early 20th century, many analysts – Freud and Ernest Jones in particular – were confident that cultural anthropologists would demonstrate the universal nature of the Oedipus complex and other unconscious phenomena. Collaboration between the two disciplines, however, was undermined by a series of controversies surrounding the relationship between psychology and culture. This paper re-examines the three episodes that framed anthropology's early encounter with psychoanalysis, emphasizing the important works and their critical reception. Freud's Totem and Taboo began the interdisciplinary dialogue, but it was Bronislaw Malinowski's embrace of psychoanalysis – a development anticipated through a close reading of his personal diaries – that marked a turning point in relations between the two disciplines. Malinowski argued that an avuncular (rather than an Oedipal) complex existed in the Trobriand Islands. Ernest Jones’ critical dismissal of this theory alienated Malinowski from psychoanalysis and ended ethnographers’ serious exploration of Freudian thought. A subsequent ethnographic movement, ‘culture and personality,’ was erroneously seen by many anthropologists as a product of Freudian theory. When ‘culture and personality’ was abandoned, anthropologists believed that psychoanalysis had been discredited as well – a narrative that still informs the historiography of the discipline and its rejection of psychoanalytical theory.Closehttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-8315.12616/abstractCheck for possible fulltext in Google ScholarClose 2016 Journal Article Cook, ScottMalinowski in Oaxaca: Implications of an Unfinished Project in Economic Anthropology, Part II Critique of Anthropology, pp. 0308275X16648750, 2016, ISSN: 0308-275X.Links | BibTeX | Tags: economics, Latin America, work about Malinowski@article{cook_malinowski_2016b, title = {Malinowski in Oaxaca: Implications of an Unfinished Project in Economic Anthropology, Part II}, author = {Scott Cook}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308275X16648750}, doi = {10.1177/0308275X16648750}, issn = {0308-275X}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, journal = {Critique of Anthropology}, pages = {0308275X16648750}, keywords = {economics, Latin America, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Closehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308275X16648750Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseBook Richardson, ShelleyFamily Experiments. Middle-class, professional families in Australia and New Zealand c. 1880–1920 ANU Press, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-76046-059-4.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Australia, history, kinship, story of family, work about Masson@book{richardson_family_2016, title = {Family Experiments. Middle-class, professional families in Australia and New Zealand c. 1880–1920}, author = {Shelley Richardson}, url = {https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/anu-lives-series-biography/family-experiments}, isbn = {978-1-76046-059-4}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, urldate = {2017-08-12}, publisher = {ANU Press}, abstract = {Family Experiments explores the forms and undertakings of ‘family’ that prevailed among British professionals who migrated to Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth century. Their attempts to establish and define ‘family’ in Australasian, suburban environments reveal how the Victorian theory of ‘separate spheres’ could take a variety of forms in the new world setting.}, keywords = {Australia, history, kinship, story of family, work about Masson}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } CloseFamily Experiments explores the forms and undertakings of ‘family’ that prevailed among British professionals who migrated to Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth century. Their attempts to establish and define ‘family’ in Australasian, suburban environments reveal how the Victorian theory of ‘separate spheres’ could take a variety of forms in the new world setting.Closehttps://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/anu-lives-series-biography/family-e[...]CloseBook Shellam, Tiffany; Nugent, Maria; Konishi, Shino; Cadzow, AllisonBrokers and boundaries: Colonial exploration in Indigenous territory ANU Press, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-76046-011-2.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: history, Trobriands@book{shellam_brokers_2016, title = {Brokers and boundaries: Colonial exploration in Indigenous territory}, author = {Tiffany Shellam and Maria Nugent and Shino Konishi and Allison Cadzow}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1d10hn9}, isbn = {978-1-76046-011-2}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, publisher = {ANU Press}, abstract = {Colonial exploration continues, all too often, to be rendered as heroic narratives of solitary, intrepid explorers and adventurers. This edited collection contributes to scholarship that is challenging that persistent mythology. With a focus on Indigenous brokers, such as guides, assistants and mediators, it highlights the ways in which nineteenth-century exploration in Australia and New Guinea was a collective and socially complex enterprise. Many of the authors provide biographically rich studies that carefully examine and speculate about Indigenous brokers’ motivations, commitments and desires. All of the chapters in the collection are attentive to the specific local circumstances as well as broader colonial contexts in which exploration and encounters occurred.}, keywords = {history, Trobriands}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } CloseColonial exploration continues, all too often, to be rendered as heroic narratives of solitary, intrepid explorers and adventurers. This edited collection contributes to scholarship that is challenging that persistent mythology. With a focus on Indigenous brokers, such as guides, assistants and mediators, it highlights the ways in which nineteenth-century exploration in Australia and New Guinea was a collective and socially complex enterprise. Many of the authors provide biographically rich studies that carefully examine and speculate about Indigenous brokers’ motivations, commitments and desires. All of the chapters in the collection are attentive to the specific local circumstances as well as broader colonial contexts in which exploration and encounters occurred.Closehttp://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1d10hn9CloseJournal Article Suolinna, KirstiFocusing on fieldwork: Edvard Westermarck and Hilma Granqvist – before and after Bronislaw Malinowski Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 17 (2), pp. 263–278, 2016, ISSN: 0582-3226, 0582-3226.Links | BibTeX | Tags: ethnography, history of anthropology, work about Malinowski@article{suolinna_focusing_2016, title = {Focusing on fieldwork: Edvard Westermarck and Hilma Granqvist – before and after Bronislaw Malinowski}, author = {Kirsti Suolinna}, url = {https://ojs.abo.fi/ojs/index.php/scripta/article/view/461}, issn = {0582-3226, 0582-3226}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, urldate = {2017-08-14}, journal = {Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis}, volume = {17}, number = {2}, pages = {263--278}, keywords = {ethnography, history of anthropology, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Closehttps://ojs.abo.fi/ojs/index.php/scripta/article/view/461CloseJournal Article Milenković, MilošJames Clifford's Influence on Bronislaw Malinowski: The Moral Implications of Intertemporal Heterarchy Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, 4 (3), pp. 17–29, 2016, ISSN: 2334-8801.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: history of anthropology, work about Malinowski@article{milenkovic_james_2016, title = {James Clifford's Influence on Bronislaw Malinowski: The Moral Implications of Intertemporal Heterarchy}, author = {Miloš Milenković}, url = {https://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/265}, issn = {2334-8801}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, urldate = {2017-08-14}, journal = {Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology}, volume = {4}, number = {3}, pages = {17--29}, abstract = {Drawing on the explanation already offered for the confusion of positivism with realism in the epistemological imagination of the author and founder of postmodern anthropology, the paper analyzes the moral implications of dealing with problems characteristic of the philosophy of science by literary-theoretical means. The transdisciplinary migration of "realism" from literary theory to social science methodology has produced a whole new history of anthropology. The history of pre-postmodern anthropology constructed in this manner can be said to fit the register of some sort of comparative-cultural theory of retroactive moral judgement, complementing postmodern anthropology as a general theory of writing by political subjects, so that the theoretical-methodological dilemmas of postmodern anthropology do not constitute proof of the legitimacy of a holistic interpretation of the discipline’s founders’ intentions, but rather lead to neo-pyrrhonic, formalistic endeavours to uphold, by respecting academic trappings, the academic authority of the discipline whose subject, method and purpose, as a rule, even colleagues from adjacent departments for various reasons fail to understand. In the paper, evidence for this is derived from Clifford's writing of Malinowski, and the moral implications of the unfortunate analogy between the writing of political subjects and the writing of disciplinary founders are followed through. The paper then goes on to explain that the critique of the possibilities of misuse, particularly through political instrumentalization, of anthropological fictions as evidence of Others did not have to come at the cost of sacrificing the semblance of continuity in the establishment of anthropology as a proper academic discipline.}, keywords = {history of anthropology, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseDrawing on the explanation already offered for the confusion of positivism with realism in the epistemological imagination of the author and founder of postmodern anthropology, the paper analyzes the moral implications of dealing with problems characteristic of the philosophy of science by literary-theoretical means. The transdisciplinary migration of "realism" from literary theory to social science methodology has produced a whole new history of anthropology. The history of pre-postmodern anthropology constructed in this manner can be said to fit the register of some sort of comparative-cultural theory of retroactive moral judgement, complementing postmodern anthropology as a general theory of writing by political subjects, so that the theoretical-methodological dilemmas of postmodern anthropology do not constitute proof of the legitimacy of a holistic interpretation of the discipline’s founders’ intentions, but rather lead to neo-pyrrhonic, formalistic endeavours to uphold, by respecting academic trappings, the academic authority of the discipline whose subject, method and purpose, as a rule, even colleagues from adjacent departments for various reasons fail to understand. In the paper, evidence for this is derived from Clifford's writing of Malinowski, and the moral implications of the unfortunate analogy between the writing of political subjects and the writing of disciplinary founders are followed through. The paper then goes on to explain that the critique of the possibilities of misuse, particularly through political instrumentalization, of anthropological fictions as evidence of Others did not have to come at the cost of sacrificing the semblance of continuity in the establishment of anthropology as a proper academic discipline.Closehttps://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/265CloseBook Ismail, QadriCulture and eurocentrism / Qadri Ismail Rowman & Littlefield International, London ; New York, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-78348-635-9, (Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.).BibTeX | Tags: history of anthropology, work about Malinowski@book{ismail_culture_2016, title = {Culture and eurocentrism / Qadri Ismail}, author = {Qadri Ismail}, isbn = {978-1-78348-635-9}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, publisher = {Rowman & Littlefield International}, address = {London ; New York}, series = {Disruptions}, note = {Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.}, keywords = {history of anthropology, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } CloseJournal Article Cook, Scott; Young, Michael WMalinowski, Herskovits, and the Controversy over Economics in Anthropology History of Political Economy, 48 (4), pp. 657–679, 2016, ISSN: 0018-2702, 1527-1919.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: economics, ethnography, work about Malinowski@article{cook_malinowski_2016, title = {Malinowski, Herskovits, and the Controversy over Economics in Anthropology}, author = {Scott Cook and Michael W Young}, url = {http://hope.dukejournals.org/content/48/4/657}, doi = {10.1215/00182702-3687295}, issn = {0018-2702, 1527-1919}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, urldate = {2017-08-22}, journal = {History of Political Economy}, volume = {48}, number = {4}, pages = {657--679}, abstract = {Bronislaw Malinowski and Melville Herskovits were founding contributors to the anthropological study of economic life—Malinowski as a pioneering ethnographer in Melanesia and a late-career ethnographer in Oaxaca, Mexico, and Herskovits as the leading exponent of comparative studies. The definition of their respective approaches to the study of economic life began in the 1940s with Karl Polanyi and in the 1950s with Raymond Firth, culminating in the formalist-substantivist debate of the 1960s–1970s. Malinowski's contribution was defined as emphasizing the institutional matrix of the economy while denying the universal applicability of classical/neoclassical economics; Herskovits's was defined as promoting the applicability of economics in comparative studies. A reconsideration of Herskovits's writings shows that his advocacy of the application of economics by anthropologists had qualifications and caveats. New documentary information about Malinowski's approach reinforces his commitment to the study of economic life as an ethnographic pursuit rather than a comparative one. It further reveals his late-career openness to the use of classical/neoclassical economic principles and concepts, his familiarity with market economics, and his views on the role of theory in ethnographic economics.}, keywords = {economics, ethnography, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseBronislaw Malinowski and Melville Herskovits were founding contributors to the anthropological study of economic life—Malinowski as a pioneering ethnographer in Melanesia and a late-career ethnographer in Oaxaca, Mexico, and Herskovits as the leading exponent of comparative studies. The definition of their respective approaches to the study of economic life began in the 1940s with Karl Polanyi and in the 1950s with Raymond Firth, culminating in the formalist-substantivist debate of the 1960s–1970s. Malinowski's contribution was defined as emphasizing the institutional matrix of the economy while denying the universal applicability of classical/neoclassical economics; Herskovits's was defined as promoting the applicability of economics in comparative studies. A reconsideration of Herskovits's writings shows that his advocacy of the application of economics by anthropologists had qualifications and caveats. New documentary information about Malinowski's approach reinforces his commitment to the study of economic life as an ethnographic pursuit rather than a comparative one. It further reveals his late-career openness to the use of classical/neoclassical economic principles and concepts, his familiarity with market economics, and his views on the role of theory in ethnographic economics.Closehttp://hope.dukejournals.org/content/48/4/657Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseIncollection Lydon, JanePopularizing Anthropology: Elsie Masson and Baldwin Spancer Photography, humanitarianism, empire, pp. 77–96, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.BibTeX | Tags: work about Masson@incollection{lydon_popularizing_2016, title = {Popularizing Anthropology: Elsie Masson and Baldwin Spancer}, author = { Jane Lydon}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, booktitle = {Photography, humanitarianism, empire}, pages = {77--96}, publisher = {Bloomsbury Publishing}, keywords = {work about Masson}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {incollection} } CloseJournal Article MacCarthy, MichelleThe morality of mweki: Performing sexuality in the ‘Islands of Love’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 27 (2), pp. 149–167, 2016, ISSN: 1757-6547.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Trobriands@article{maccarthy_morality_2016, title = {The morality of mweki: Performing sexuality in the ‘Islands of Love’}, author = { Michelle MacCarthy}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/taja.12191/abstract}, doi = {10.1111/taja.12191}, issn = {1757-6547}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, journal = {The Australian Journal of Anthropology}, volume = {27}, number = {2}, pages = {149--167}, abstract = {Trobriand dance is a key cultural expression and a means of communicating subjectivity in a number of ways: it expresses aspects of kinship, gender, morality, and ideas about modernity and primitivity. In a region with a long history of Christian missions, coupled with a recent ‘Revival’ brought about by the arrival of Pentecostal forms of worship, certain dances come to be key markers of particular moral positions. Primary among these is the Tapioca Dance, famed far beyond the Trobriands, but problematic in local discourses and practice. This paper examines the ways in which such dances make sexuality public, and why this is such a concern for ‘Revived’ (and other) Christian Trobriand Islanders.}, keywords = {Trobriands}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseTrobriand dance is a key cultural expression and a means of communicating subjectivity in a number of ways: it expresses aspects of kinship, gender, morality, and ideas about modernity and primitivity. In a region with a long history of Christian missions, coupled with a recent ‘Revival’ brought about by the arrival of Pentecostal forms of worship, certain dances come to be key markers of particular moral positions. Primary among these is the Tapioca Dance, famed far beyond the Trobriands, but problematic in local discourses and practice. This paper examines the ways in which such dances make sexuality public, and why this is such a concern for ‘Revived’ (and other) Christian Trobriand Islanders.Closehttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/taja.12191/abstractCheck for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Valdés, María; Vila, Anna PiellaLa parentalidad desde el parentesco : Quaderns-e de l'Institut Català d'Antropologia, 21 (2), pp. 4–20, 2016.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: @article{valdes_parentalidad_2016, title = {La parentalidad desde el parentesco :}, author = { María Valdés and Anna Piella Vila}, url = {https://ddd.uab.cat/record/170468?ln=ca}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, urldate = {2017-11-13}, journal = {Quaderns-e de l'Institut Català d'Antropologia}, volume = {21}, number = {2}, pages = {4--20}, abstract = {La parentalidad, entendida como un corpus de comportamientos, relaciones sociales,sentimientos culturalmente pautados y representaciones culturales vinculado a la procreación y crianza constituye un tema más que emergente, re-emergente, en el campo de estudio del parentesco, no tanto por su contenido (formas diversas de cuidados parentales se han descrito en la Antropología Social clásica y en otras Ciencias Sociales), como por el uso del término ‘parentalidad’ para referirse a esas prácticas de crianza. Se presenta en este artículo el ámbito de la parentalidad desde la Antropología del Parentesco a partir de la definición propuesta por el Getp-GRAFO y utilizando algunos rudimentos metodológicos de la historia conceptual, se intentará asimismo establecer la genealogía del concepto de parentalidad en el seno de la disciplina antropológica. Este concepto no ha sido, ni mucho menos, patrimonio exclusivo de nuestra disciplina. Una parte significativa de las publicaciones sobre parentalidad consiste en trabajos corales, en los que se aborda el fenómeno desde diferentes perspectivas disciplinarias y muchos de ellos tienen una vertiente práctica que los relaciona con el ámbito de la intervención social. Se trata, pues, de un tópico idóneo para explorar la colaboración entre disciplinas., Parenthood, understood as a set of behaviors, social relationships, culturally patterned feelings and cultural representations linked to procreation and child rearing is a re-emerging (rather than emerging) topic in the study of kinship. This is not so much due to its content (diverse types of parental care have been described in classical social anthropology and other social sciences), but rather because of the use of the term “parenthood” to refer to these child rearing practices. This article presents the field of parenthood from the anthropology of kinship on the basis of the definition proposed by the Getp-GRAFO. And, by using some methodological rudiments of conceptual history, we will also establish the genealogy of this concept of parenthood at the core of the anthropology. This concept has by no means been exclusive to our discipline. A significant number of publications on parenthood are joint efforts, in which the phenomenon is approached from different disciplinary perspectives. Moreover, many of them have a practical aspect related to the field of social intervention. It is therefore an appropriate topic for exploring interdisciplinary collaborations.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseLa parentalidad, entendida como un corpus de comportamientos, relaciones sociales,sentimientos culturalmente pautados y representaciones culturales vinculado a la procreación y crianza constituye un tema más que emergente, re-emergente, en el campo de estudio del parentesco, no tanto por su contenido (formas diversas de cuidados parentales se han descrito en la Antropología Social clásica y en otras Ciencias Sociales), como por el uso del término ‘parentalidad’ para referirse a esas prácticas de crianza. Se presenta en este artículo el ámbito de la parentalidad desde la Antropología del Parentesco a partir de la definición propuesta por el Getp-GRAFO y utilizando algunos rudimentos metodológicos de la historia conceptual, se intentará asimismo establecer la genealogía del concepto de parentalidad en el seno de la disciplina antropológica. Este concepto no ha sido, ni mucho menos, patrimonio exclusivo de nuestra disciplina. Una parte significativa de las publicaciones sobre parentalidad consiste en trabajos corales, en los que se aborda el fenómeno desde diferentes perspectivas disciplinarias y muchos de ellos tienen una vertiente práctica que los relaciona con el ámbito de la intervención social. Se trata, pues, de un tópico idóneo para explorar la colaboración entre disciplinas., Parenthood, understood as a set of behaviors, social relationships, culturally patterned feelings and cultural representations linked to procreation and child rearing is a re-emerging (rather than emerging) topic in the study of kinship. This is not so much due to its content (diverse types of parental care have been described in classical social anthropology and other social sciences), but rather because of the use of the term “parenthood” to refer to these child rearing practices. This article presents the field of parenthood from the anthropology of kinship on the basis of the definition proposed by the Getp-GRAFO. And, by using some methodological rudiments of conceptual history, we will also establish the genealogy of this concept of parenthood at the core of the anthropology. This concept has by no means been exclusive to our discipline. A significant number of publications on parenthood are joint efforts, in which the phenomenon is approached from different disciplinary perspectives. Moreover, many of them have a practical aspect related to the field of social intervention. It is therefore an appropriate topic for exploring interdisciplinary collaborations.Closehttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/170468?ln=caCloseJournal Article Scott, Michael WTo be Makiran is to see like Mr Parrot: the anthropology of wonder in Solomon Islands Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22 (3), pp. 474–495, 2016, ISSN: 1467-9655.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Oceania@article{scott_be_2016, title = {To be Makiran is to see like Mr Parrot: the anthropology of wonder in Solomon Islands}, author = { Michael W. Scott}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.12442/abstract}, doi = {10.1111/1467-9655.12442}, issn = {1467-9655}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, journal = {Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute}, volume = {22}, number = {3}, pages = {474--495}, abstract = {This article lays out a general thesis for the development of a comparative ethnographic approach to the anthropology of wonder. It suggests that wonder is both an index and a mode of challenge to existing ontological premises. Through analytical engagement with the theme of wonder in Western philosophy and the anthropology of ontology, it extends this thesis to include the corollary that different ontological premises give rise to different wonders. Ethnographically, the article supports these claims via analysis of wonder discourses among the Arosi of Solomon Islands. These discourses, it is argued, both respond to and promote ontological transformations in a context where the premises at stake are neither those of the Cartesian dualism commonly ascribed to modernity nor of the relational non-dualism commonly ascribe to anthropology's ethnographic ‘others’, but of a non-Cartesian pluralism termed poly-ontology.}, keywords = {Oceania}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseThis article lays out a general thesis for the development of a comparative ethnographic approach to the anthropology of wonder. It suggests that wonder is both an index and a mode of challenge to existing ontological premises. Through analytical engagement with the theme of wonder in Western philosophy and the anthropology of ontology, it extends this thesis to include the corollary that different ontological premises give rise to different wonders. Ethnographically, the article supports these claims via analysis of wonder discourses among the Arosi of Solomon Islands. These discourses, it is argued, both respond to and promote ontological transformations in a context where the premises at stake are neither those of the Cartesian dualism commonly ascribed to modernity nor of the relational non-dualism commonly ascribe to anthropology's ethnographic ‘others’, but of a non-Cartesian pluralism termed poly-ontology.Closehttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.12442/abstractCheck for possible fulltext in Google ScholarClose 2015 Journal Article Scott, Michael WCosmogony Today: Counter-Cosmogony, Perspectivism, and the Return of Anti-biblical Polemic Religion and Society, 6 (1), pp. 44–61, 2015, ISSN: 21509301.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: @article{scott_cosmogony_2015, title = {Cosmogony Today: Counter-Cosmogony, Perspectivism, and the Return of Anti-biblical Polemic}, author = { Michael W. Scott}, url = {https://www.berghahnjournals.com/abstract/journals/religion-and-society/6/1/air-rs060104.xml}, doi = {10.3167/arrs.2015.060104}, issn = {21509301}, year = {2015}, date = {2015-09-01}, urldate = {2017-12-01}, journal = {Religion and Society}, volume = {6}, number = {1}, pages = {44--61}, abstract = {In this article I review critical thought about cosmogony in the social sciences and explore the current status of this concept. The latter agenda entails three components. First, I argue that, even where cosmogony is not mentioned, contemporary anthropological projects that reject the essentialist ontology they ascribe to Western modernity in favor of analytical versions of relational non-dualism thereby posit a 'counter-cosmogony' of eternal relational becoming. Second, I show how Viveiros de Castro has made Amazonian cosmogonic myth—understood as counter-cosmogony—iconic of the relational non-dualist ontology he terms 'perspectival multinaturalism'. Observing that this counter-cosmogony now stands in opposition to biblical cosmogony, I conclude by considering the consequences for the study of cosmogony when it becomes a register of what it is about—when it becomes, that is, a form of polemical debate about competing models of cosmogony and the practical implications that they are perceived to entail.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseIn this article I review critical thought about cosmogony in the social sciences and explore the current status of this concept. The latter agenda entails three components. First, I argue that, even where cosmogony is not mentioned, contemporary anthropological projects that reject the essentialist ontology they ascribe to Western modernity in favor of analytical versions of relational non-dualism thereby posit a 'counter-cosmogony' of eternal relational becoming. Second, I show how Viveiros de Castro has made Amazonian cosmogonic myth—understood as counter-cosmogony—iconic of the relational non-dualist ontology he terms 'perspectival multinaturalism'. Observing that this counter-cosmogony now stands in opposition to biblical cosmogony, I conclude by considering the consequences for the study of cosmogony when it becomes a register of what it is about—when it becomes, that is, a form of polemical debate about competing models of cosmogony and the practical implications that they are perceived to entail.Closehttps://www.berghahnjournals.com/abstract/journals/religion-and-society/6/1/air-[...]Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Schneider, ArndAn anthropology of the sea voyage - Prolegomena to an epistemology of transoceanic travel Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal, 1 , pp. 31–52, 2015, ISSN: 2413-9181, 2413-9181.BibTeX | Tags: history, work about Malinowski@article{schneider_anthropology_2015, title = {An anthropology of the sea voyage - Prolegomena to an epistemology of transoceanic travel}, author = {Arnd Schneider}, issn = {2413-9181, 2413-9181}, year = {2015}, date = {2015-01-01}, urldate = {2017-08-14}, journal = {Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal}, volume = {1}, pages = {31--52}, keywords = {history, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseIncollection Kubica, GrażynaA flâneur and ethnographer in their home city: the Krakow of Bronisław Malinowski and Feliks Gross : remarks of a historian of anthropology Rytíř z Komárova : k 70. narozeninám Petra Skalníka = Knight from Komárov : to Petr Skalník for his 70th birthday, pp. 81–92, AntropoWeb, Praha, 2015, ISBN: 978-80-905098-7-0.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: work about Malinowski@incollection{kubica_flaneur_2015, title = {A flâneur and ethnographer in their home city: the Krakow of Bronisław Malinowski and Feliks Gross : remarks of a historian of anthropology}, author = { Grażyna Kubica}, url = {https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/25611}, isbn = {978-80-905098-7-0}, year = {2015}, date = {2015-01-01}, booktitle = {Rytíř z Komárova : k 70. narozeninám Petra Skalníka = Knight from Komárov : to Petr Skalník for his 70th birthday}, pages = {81--92}, publisher = {AntropoWeb}, address = {Praha}, abstract = {The paper discusses the beginnings of anthropologists' interest in the city on the examples of Bronisław Malinowski, and his student and colaborator, Feliks Gross, who both came from Krakow. Malinowski's entries in his diaries suggest a modernist figure of a flâneur, an urban spectator, as depicted by Walter Benjamin. The figure has very much in common with ethnographer, and they are both two versions of male adventurous explorer. Gross can be seen a pioneer of urban anthropology because of his fieldwork in the Jewish district of Krakow, which he sstarted in the late 1930s, but could not complete because of the outbreak of the II WW. He later used the experiences and knowledge he got from it in his theoretical writings. Malinowski's and Gross' home city, walked through a flâneurian way, had thus been a testing ground for their future ethnographies and theories.}, keywords = {work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {incollection} } CloseThe paper discusses the beginnings of anthropologists' interest in the city on the examples of Bronisław Malinowski, and his student and colaborator, Feliks Gross, who both came from Krakow. Malinowski's entries in his diaries suggest a modernist figure of a flâneur, an urban spectator, as depicted by Walter Benjamin. The figure has very much in common with ethnographer, and they are both two versions of male adventurous explorer. Gross can be seen a pioneer of urban anthropology because of his fieldwork in the Jewish district of Krakow, which he sstarted in the late 1930s, but could not complete because of the outbreak of the II WW. He later used the experiences and knowledge he got from it in his theoretical writings. Malinowski's and Gross' home city, walked through a flâneurian way, had thus been a testing ground for their future ethnographies and theories.Closehttps://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/25611CloseJournal Article Lepani, Katherine‘I am Still a Young Girl if I Want’: Relational Personhood and Individual Autonomy in the Trobriand Islands Oceania, 85 (1), pp. 51–62, 2015, ISSN: 1834-4461.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: gender, Trobriand Islands@article{lepani_i_2015, title = {‘I am Still a Young Girl if I Want’: Relational Personhood and Individual Autonomy in the Trobriand Islands}, author = { Katherine Lepani}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ocea.5073/abstract}, doi = {10.1002/ocea.5073}, issn = {1834-4461}, year = {2015}, date = {2015-01-01}, journal = {Oceania}, volume = {85}, number = {1}, pages = {51--62}, abstract = {In the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea, sexuality is valued as a positive expression of relational personhood, registering the efficacy of consensual and pleasurable practice in producing and maintaining social relations. The power of sexuality to demonstrate individual and collective capacity and potential holds particular salience for unmarried young people. This paper draws on my ethnographic research on culture and HIV in the Trobriands to address perduring questions about the locus of individual autonomy in Melanesian sociality, where relational personhood shapes identity and modes of exchange in the moral economy. I focus on the gendered agency of youth sexuality, including the use of kwaiwaga, or love magic, in exercising and controlling desire. The narrative identities of two young women provide the lens through which questions of agency are explored, revealing how the autonomous mind, nanola, is central to understanding the embodiment of social relations, how the power of love magic transfers agency from one individual to another, and how individual assertions and acts are ultimately expressions of situated relationality.}, keywords = {gender, Trobriand Islands}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseIn the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea, sexuality is valued as a positive expression of relational personhood, registering the efficacy of consensual and pleasurable practice in producing and maintaining social relations. The power of sexuality to demonstrate individual and collective capacity and potential holds particular salience for unmarried young people. This paper draws on my ethnographic research on culture and HIV in the Trobriands to address perduring questions about the locus of individual autonomy in Melanesian sociality, where relational personhood shapes identity and modes of exchange in the moral economy. I focus on the gendered agency of youth sexuality, including the use of kwaiwaga, or love magic, in exercising and controlling desire. The narrative identities of two young women provide the lens through which questions of agency are explored, revealing how the autonomous mind, nanola, is central to understanding the embodiment of social relations, how the power of love magic transfers agency from one individual to another, and how individual assertions and acts are ultimately expressions of situated relationality.Closehttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ocea.5073/abstractCheck for possible fulltext in Google ScholarClose 2014 Miscellaneous Young, Michael WWriting his Life through the Other: The Anthropology of Malinowski 2014.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: biography, work about Malinowski@misc{young_writing_2014, title = {Writing his Life through the Other: The Anthropology of Malinowski}, author = {Michael W Young}, url = {/2014/01/22/writing-his-life-through-the-other-the-anthropology-of-malinowski/}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, urldate = {2017-08-27}, journal = {The Public Domain Review}, abstract = {Last year saw the works of Bronislaw Malinowski – father of modern anthropology – enter the public domain in many countries around the world. Michael W. Young explores the personal crisis plaguing the Polish-born anthropologist at the end of his first major stint of ethnographic immersion in the Trobriand Islands, a period of self-doubt glimpsed through entries in his diary – the most infamous, most nakedly honest document in the annals of social anthropology.}, keywords = {biography, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {misc} } CloseLast year saw the works of Bronislaw Malinowski – father of modern anthropology – enter the public domain in many countries around the world. Michael W. Young explores the personal crisis plaguing the Polish-born anthropologist at the end of his first major stint of ethnographic immersion in the Trobriand Islands, a period of self-doubt glimpsed through entries in his diary – the most infamous, most nakedly honest document in the annals of social anthropology.Close/2014/01/22/writing-his-life-through-the-other-the-anthropology-of-malinowski/CloseJournal Article Liep, JohnThe Trobriandization of the Western World: Bronislaw Malinowski and the sexual revolution 2014.Links | BibTeX | Tags: history, work about Malinowski@article{liep_trobriandization_2014, title = {The Trobriandization of the Western World: Bronislaw Malinowski and the sexual revolution}, author = {John Liep}, url = {http://web.a.ebscohost.com/abstract?direct=true&profile=ehost&scope=site&authtype=crawler&jrnl=03553930&AN=102142033&h=zZFbcktcH5nZ1hiaoVsS527x307zh2epLMSLMWj065sRJ74ScmQ6jlDXcePcqteHD2XwfN2MY67%2f37V0rgZm6Q%3d%3d&crl=f&resultNs=AdminWebAuth&resultLocal=ErrCrlNotAuth&crlhashurl=login.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26profile%3dehost%26scope%3dsite%26authtype%3dcrawler%26jrnl%3d03553930%26AN%3d102142033}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, urldate = {2017-08-11}, keywords = {history, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Closehttp://web.a.ebscohost.com/abstract?direct=true&profile=ehost&sc[...]CloseJournal Article Mosko, Mark SMalinowski magical puzzles: Towards a new theory of magic and procreation in Trobriand society HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 4 (1), pp. 1–47, 2014, ISSN: 2049-1115.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: kinship, magic and religion, Trobriands, work about Malinowski@article{mosko_malinowski_2014, title = {Malinowski magical puzzles: Towards a new theory of magic and procreation in Trobriand society}, author = {Mark S Mosko}, url = {https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.1.001}, doi = {10.14318/hau4.1.001}, issn = {2049-1115}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, urldate = {2017-08-13}, journal = {HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory}, volume = {4}, number = {1}, pages = {1--47}, abstract = {Malinowski’s classic accounts of Trobriand sociality have left anthropology with many lasting conundrums. This two-part article examines two such puzzles revolving around contradictory reports over the agencies involved in magical chants (megwa). On the one hand, consistent with his pragmatic and functionalist theories of language and culture, Malinowski claimed that, although ancestral baloma and other spirits are typically invoked in most spells, those incantations’ efficaciousness derived instead from the power of the enunciated words. On the other, as part of his evidence in support of Islanders’ “ignorance of physiological paternity,” he conceded that spells intended to produce pregnancy in village women were instead expressly aimed at eliciting appropriate ritual actions from baloma spirits as agents of conception and birth. On the basis of ethnographic data recently gathered at Omarakana village interpreted through specific adaptations of the “New Melanesian Ethnography” and Tambiah’s earlier “participation” theory of ritual practice, I argue that for Trobrianders the magical power of words is the power of spirits, and vice versa. This insight has important implications for classic and contemporary debates over the nature of “magic,” controversies over paternity and so-called “virgin birth,” theories of personhood and agency, and the character of dala “matrilineage” relations.}, keywords = {kinship, magic and religion, Trobriands, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseMalinowski’s classic accounts of Trobriand sociality have left anthropology with many lasting conundrums. This two-part article examines two such puzzles revolving around contradictory reports over the agencies involved in magical chants (megwa). On the one hand, consistent with his pragmatic and functionalist theories of language and culture, Malinowski claimed that, although ancestral baloma and other spirits are typically invoked in most spells, those incantations’ efficaciousness derived instead from the power of the enunciated words. On the other, as part of his evidence in support of Islanders’ “ignorance of physiological paternity,” he conceded that spells intended to produce pregnancy in village women were instead expressly aimed at eliciting appropriate ritual actions from baloma spirits as agents of conception and birth. On the basis of ethnographic data recently gathered at Omarakana village interpreted through specific adaptations of the “New Melanesian Ethnography” and Tambiah’s earlier “participation” theory of ritual practice, I argue that for Trobrianders the magical power of words is the power of spirits, and vice versa. This insight has important implications for classic and contemporary debates over the nature of “magic,” controversies over paternity and so-called “virgin birth,” theories of personhood and agency, and the character of dala “matrilineage” relations.Closehttps://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.1.001Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Lipset, DavidSavage Memory: How Do We Remember Our Dead? Directed by Zachary Stuart and Kelly Thomson (review) The Contemporary Pacific, 26 (2), pp. 583–585, 2014, ISSN: 1527-9464.Links | BibTeX | Tags: movie review, work about Malinowski@article{lipset_savage_2014, title = {Savage Memory: How Do We Remember Our Dead? Directed by Zachary Stuart and Kelly Thomson (review)}, author = {David Lipset}, url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/554351}, doi = {10.1353/cp.2014.0028}, issn = {1527-9464}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, urldate = {2017-08-14}, journal = {The Contemporary Pacific}, volume = {26}, number = {2}, pages = {583--585}, keywords = {movie review, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Closehttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/554351Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Borš, Bronisław Malinowski: Deus ex machina of anthropology Holon, 4 (1), pp. 97–113, 2014.Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: work about Malinowski@article{bors_bronislaw_2014, title = {Bronisław Malinowski: Deus ex machina of anthropology}, author = {Borš}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, journal = {Holon}, volume = {4}, number = {1}, pages = {97--113}, abstract = {The purpose of this, popularizing, work is to look back and present fundamental, but also some lesser known, biographical information about the one of the most famous anthropologists, Bronisław Malinowski, and do so in the context of commemorating 130 years from his birth. Therefore, this work primarily traces his education, influences, research and educational activity. The essential contributions of Malinowski to anthropology, that is, his concept of functionalism and participant observation, are briefly presented as well.}, keywords = {work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseThe purpose of this, popularizing, work is to look back and present fundamental, but also some lesser known, biographical information about the one of the most famous anthropologists, Bronisław Malinowski, and do so in the context of commemorating 130 years from his birth. Therefore, this work primarily traces his education, influences, research and educational activity. The essential contributions of Malinowski to anthropology, that is, his concept of functionalism and participant observation, are briefly presented as well.CloseMiscellaneous Holdsworth, ChrisBronislaw Malinowski. In Oxford Bibliographies 2014.Links | BibTeX | Tags: bibliography about Malinowski@misc{holdsworth_bronislaw_2014, title = {Bronislaw Malinowski. In Oxford Bibliographies}, author = {Chris Holdsworth}, url = {http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0096.xml#obo-9780199766567-0096-div1-0012}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, keywords = {bibliography about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {misc} } Closehttp://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-97801997[...]CloseMiscellaneous Kuper, AdamAnthropology and anthropologists forty years on by Adam Kuper « Anthropology of this Century 2014.Links | BibTeX | Tags: history of anthropology@misc{kuper_anthropology_2014, title = {Anthropology and anthropologists forty years on by Adam Kuper « Anthropology of this Century}, author = { Adam Kuper}, url = {http://aotcpress.com/articles/anthropology-anthropologists-forty-years/}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, urldate = {2017-10-24}, keywords = {history of anthropology}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {misc} } Closehttp://aotcpress.com/articles/anthropology-anthropologists-forty-years/CloseMiscellaneous Gijswijt-Hofstra, M; Studiecentrum, AfrikaAmong the Mende in Sierra Leone: the letters from Sjoerd Hofstra (1934-36) 2014.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Africa, history of anthropology, work about Malinowski@misc{gijswijt-hofstra_among_2014, title = {Among the Mende in Sierra Leone: the letters from Sjoerd Hofstra (1934-36)}, author = { M. Gijswijt-Hofstra and Afrika Studiecentrum}, url = {https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/24890}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, urldate = {2017-10-24}, journal = {http://hdl.handle.net/1887/24890}, abstract = {This book offers a unique look behind the scenes of anthropological fieldwork amongst the Mende in Sierra Leone in the mid-1930s. The Dutch anthropologist and sociologist Sjoerd Hofstra (1898-1983), Rockefeller research fellow of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures and one of Bronislaw Malinowski's three 'Mandarins' (as were also Meyer Fortes and S. Frederick Nadel), reports in long, bi-weekly letters to his adoptive mother about his experiences with the Mende. During his first stay in Sierra Leone (January 1934 - March 1935), Hofstra got blackwater fever, a complication of malaria tropica. His second stay (May - September 1936) came to an untimely end because he again developed symptoms of blackwater fever and was advised to return to Europe. Because of this his fieldwork remained unfinished, and Hofstra never got round to publishing the planned book on the Mende. However, Hofstra published four articles on the Mende in English, photocopies of which are included in this book. Next to these articles Hofstra's letters to his adoptive mother contain valuable first-hand information about his fieldwork. His daughter, cultural and social historian Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, has edited and translated these letters, while also including contextual information.}, keywords = {Africa, history of anthropology, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {misc} } CloseThis book offers a unique look behind the scenes of anthropological fieldwork amongst the Mende in Sierra Leone in the mid-1930s. The Dutch anthropologist and sociologist Sjoerd Hofstra (1898-1983), Rockefeller research fellow of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures and one of Bronislaw Malinowski's three 'Mandarins' (as were also Meyer Fortes and S. Frederick Nadel), reports in long, bi-weekly letters to his adoptive mother about his experiences with the Mende. During his first stay in Sierra Leone (January 1934 - March 1935), Hofstra got blackwater fever, a complication of malaria tropica. His second stay (May - September 1936) came to an untimely end because he again developed symptoms of blackwater fever and was advised to return to Europe. Because of this his fieldwork remained unfinished, and Hofstra never got round to publishing the planned book on the Mende. However, Hofstra published four articles on the Mende in English, photocopies of which are included in this book. Next to these articles Hofstra's letters to his adoptive mother contain valuable first-hand information about his fieldwork. His daughter, cultural and social historian Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, has edited and translated these letters, while also including contextual information.Closehttps://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/24890Close 2013 Journal Article Stewart, MichaelMysteries reside in the humblest, everyday things: collaborative anthropology in the digital age Social Anthropology, 21 (3), pp. 305–321, 2013, ISSN: 1469-8676.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: ethnography@article{stewart_mysteries_2013, title = {Mysteries reside in the humblest, everyday things: collaborative anthropology in the digital age}, author = { Michael Stewart}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1469-8676.12041/abstract}, doi = {10.1111/1469-8676.12041}, issn = {1469-8676}, year = {2013}, date = {2013-08-01}, journal = {Social Anthropology}, volume = {21}, number = {3}, pages = {305--321}, abstract = {MyStreet is an internet-based collaborative anthropology research project combining digital recording, Google maps and visual-ethnographic research. It aims to generate a space for a series of ‘minor’ discourses in which ‘venatic’ evidence (Carlo Ginzburg) holds sway. I examine this project and its preliminary outcomes as a revival of the spirit of Mass Observation, a British social movement of the 1930s. Though originally rejected by the Anthropological academy, Mass Observation's extraordinary vision of a democratic ‘science of ourselves’, to be realised through the creation of a popular anthropology of everyday life, remains as relevant today as it was in 1937.}, keywords = {ethnography}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseMyStreet is an internet-based collaborative anthropology research project combining digital recording, Google maps and visual-ethnographic research. It aims to generate a space for a series of ‘minor’ discourses in which ‘venatic’ evidence (Carlo Ginzburg) holds sway. I examine this project and its preliminary outcomes as a revival of the spirit of Mass Observation, a British social movement of the 1930s. Though originally rejected by the Anthropological academy, Mass Observation's extraordinary vision of a democratic ‘science of ourselves’, to be realised through the creation of a popular anthropology of everyday life, remains as relevant today as it was in 1937.Closehttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1469-8676.12041/abstractCheck for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Alvarez, Oscar FernándezMalinowski and the New Humanism History of the Human Sciences, 26 (2), pp. 70–87, 2013, ISSN: 0952-6951.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: biography, history of anthropology, work about Malinowski, work about Masson@article{fernandez_alvarez_malinowski_2013, title = {Malinowski and the New Humanism}, author = {Oscar Fernández Alvarez}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952695113480974}, doi = {10.1177/0952695113480974}, issn = {0952-6951}, year = {2013}, date = {2013-01-01}, journal = {History of the Human Sciences}, volume = {26}, number = {2}, pages = {70--87}, abstract = {In this article Bronislaw Malinowski’s ideas on humanism are analysed with reference to unpublished texts and drafts, published texts such as A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term, his personal letters to his wife Elsie Masson and articles in which his ideals were reflected. An attempt will also be made to set Malinowski’s proposal for the New Humanism in its scientific and cultural context along with the work of other great thinkers and humanists of his day. Finally, it is suggested that Malinowski’s ideas in this field, despite the passage of time, are still relevant to social anthropology and, at the very least, still inspire new thoughts.}, keywords = {biography, history of anthropology, work about Malinowski, work about Masson}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseIn this article Bronislaw Malinowski’s ideas on humanism are analysed with reference to unpublished texts and drafts, published texts such as A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term, his personal letters to his wife Elsie Masson and articles in which his ideals were reflected. An attempt will also be made to set Malinowski’s proposal for the New Humanism in its scientific and cultural context along with the work of other great thinkers and humanists of his day. Finally, it is suggested that Malinowski’s ideas in this field, despite the passage of time, are still relevant to social anthropology and, at the very least, still inspire new thoughts.Closehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952695113480974Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseBook Bolton, Lissant; Thomas, Nicholas; Adams, Julie; Bonshek, Elizabeth; Burt, BenMelanesia: Art and Encounter - Krisostomus British Museum Press, 2013.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: material culture, Melanesia@book{bolton_melanesia:_2013, title = {Melanesia: Art and Encounter - Krisostomus}, author = {Lissant Bolton and Nicholas Thomas and Julie Adams and Elizabeth Bonshek and Ben Burt}, url = {http://www.kriso.ee/melanesia-art-encounter-db-9780714125961.html}, year = {2013}, date = {2013-01-01}, urldate = {2017-09-04}, edition = {British Museum Press}, abstract = {Book: Melanesia: Art and Encounter - Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Adams, Lissant Bolton, Ben Burt - ISBN: 9780714125961. The British Museums uniquely important Melanesian collection is pre-eminent among early collections, and the 20,000 items it comprises are core to understanding the cultures of the western Pacific. The British Museums uniquely important Melanesian collection is pre-eminent among early collections,...}, keywords = {material culture, Melanesia}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } CloseBook: Melanesia: Art and Encounter - Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Adams, Lissant Bolton, Ben Burt - ISBN: 9780714125961. The British Museums uniquely important Melanesian collection is pre-eminent among early collections, and the 20,000 items it comprises are core to understanding the cultures of the western Pacific. The British Museums uniquely important Melanesian collection is pre-eminent among early collections,...Closehttp://www.kriso.ee/melanesia-art-encounter-db-9780714125961.htmlClosePhD Thesis de la Torre, Sergio JarilloCarving the spirits of the wood: an enquiry into Trobriand materialisations University of Cambridge, 2013.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Trobriands@phdthesis{jarillo_de_la_torre_carving_2013, title = {Carving the spirits of the wood: an enquiry into Trobriand materialisations}, author = {Sergio Jarillo de la Torre}, url = {https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245193}, year = {2013}, date = {2013-01-01}, urldate = {2017-09-05}, school = {University of Cambridge}, abstract = {This thesis is a study of the role of material forms as mediators of cross-cultural encounters in the Trobriand Islands. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in Kiriwina and other parts of the Massim region, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. The dissertation analyses previously overlooked material expressions in the form of woodcarvings for sale (tokwalu) to outsiders. Throughout the thesis, I demonstrate how Trobrianders conceive tokwalu as symbolic and material tools for the apprehension of what is becoming an increasingly de-territorialised universe. Woodcarvings are deployed as instruments of indigenous analysis and native agency in an attempt to establish and control the local-translocal flows that shape social life in the Massim. Despite early contact and their ongoing engagement with the wider world, the Trobriand Islands are commonly portrayed as a place where cultural resilience and the continuity of traditional models of livelihood prevail over social change. Yet like elsewhere in Melanesia, Trobrianders face the transformations effected by dynamic processes of cultural, social and economic globalisation impinging upon their region. Overpopulation, food security issues and the partial collapse of traditional hierarchical structures have elicited the assemblage of new relational networks to negotiate these transformations. Tokwalu are not fixed signposts in a predefined system of meaning but changing materialisations of contrasting images and intentions within these networks. They bring together traditional symbols and modern elements in an effort to remain commensurate with what outsiders expect from local carvings and what local carvers expect from outsiders. Vehicles of desires and aspirations, woodcarvings project Trobriand personhood and appropriate alterity as an ideal, modern other. Ultimately, towkalu are empowering artefacts for locals. They allow them to buy food, get healthcare, obtain education, increase their social prestige, enhance their mobility and fulfil customary and new obligations. This research places this native view of tokwalu at its centre to posit the necessity of considering material assemblages as processes of indigenous analysis and action in Melanesia, without which our understanding of these processes remains severely curtailed.}, keywords = {Trobriands}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {phdthesis} } CloseThis thesis is a study of the role of material forms as mediators of cross-cultural encounters in the Trobriand Islands. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in Kiriwina and other parts of the Massim region, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. The dissertation analyses previously overlooked material expressions in the form of woodcarvings for sale (tokwalu) to outsiders. Throughout the thesis, I demonstrate how Trobrianders conceive tokwalu as symbolic and material tools for the apprehension of what is becoming an increasingly de-territorialised universe. Woodcarvings are deployed as instruments of indigenous analysis and native agency in an attempt to establish and control the local-translocal flows that shape social life in the Massim. Despite early contact and their ongoing engagement with the wider world, the Trobriand Islands are commonly portrayed as a place where cultural resilience and the continuity of traditional models of livelihood prevail over social change. Yet like elsewhere in Melanesia, Trobrianders face the transformations effected by dynamic processes of cultural, social and economic globalisation impinging upon their region. Overpopulation, food security issues and the partial collapse of traditional hierarchical structures have elicited the assemblage of new relational networks to negotiate these transformations. Tokwalu are not fixed signposts in a predefined system of meaning but changing materialisations of contrasting images and intentions within these networks. They bring together traditional symbols and modern elements in an effort to remain commensurate with what outsiders expect from local carvings and what local carvers expect from outsiders. Vehicles of desires and aspirations, woodcarvings project Trobriand personhood and appropriate alterity as an ideal, modern other. Ultimately, towkalu are empowering artefacts for locals. They allow them to buy food, get healthcare, obtain education, increase their social prestige, enhance their mobility and fulfil customary and new obligations. This research places this native view of tokwalu at its centre to posit the necessity of considering material assemblages as processes of indigenous analysis and action in Melanesia, without which our understanding of these processes remains severely curtailed.Closehttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245193Close 2012 Journal Article Bartmanski, DominikHow to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault European Journal of Social Theory, 15 (4), pp. 427–453, 2012, ISSN: 1368-4310.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: history of anthropology, work about Malinowski@article{bartmanski_how_2012, title = {How to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault}, author = {Dominik Bartmanski}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431011423577}, doi = {10.1177/1368431011423577}, issn = {1368-4310}, year = {2012}, date = {2012-01-01}, journal = {European Journal of Social Theory}, volume = {15}, number = {4}, pages = {427--453}, abstract = {The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under which social thinkers assume the iconic reputation. What does it take to become ‘a founding father’ of a humanistic discipline? How do social thinkers achieve the status of a trans-disciplinary star? Why some intellectuals attract tremendous attention and ‘go down in history’ despite personal and professional failures, while others enjoy only limited recognition or simply sink into oblivion, even if they have met all the standards of their day? Quite a few sociologists have tackled this elusive issue. Pierre Bourdieu, Michele Lamont and Randall Collins are among those who fleshed out strong explanatory frameworks. This project adds to this body of knowledge by emphasizing cultural factors that these authors downplayed in their seminal accounts, despite being aware of their significance. By showing why these underdeveloped aspects of their works need to be incorporated into the debate and how this can be achieved, this article introduces a new theorization of the iconic, lasting intellectual reputation substantiated by evidence from the lifeworks of Bronisław Malinowski and Michel Foucault. As such, it aims, minimally, to make sociology of knowledge decisively ‘cultural’. Maximally, it seeks to demonstrate that the iconic success of intellectual intervention in social theory depends on carefully performed and contingently mediated engagement with the binary systems of symbolic classification.}, keywords = {history of anthropology, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseThe present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under which social thinkers assume the iconic reputation. What does it take to become ‘a founding father’ of a humanistic discipline? How do social thinkers achieve the status of a trans-disciplinary star? Why some intellectuals attract tremendous attention and ‘go down in history’ despite personal and professional failures, while others enjoy only limited recognition or simply sink into oblivion, even if they have met all the standards of their day? Quite a few sociologists have tackled this elusive issue. Pierre Bourdieu, Michele Lamont and Randall Collins are among those who fleshed out strong explanatory frameworks. This project adds to this body of knowledge by emphasizing cultural factors that these authors downplayed in their seminal accounts, despite being aware of their significance. By showing why these underdeveloped aspects of their works need to be incorporated into the debate and how this can be achieved, this article introduces a new theorization of the iconic, lasting intellectual reputation substantiated by evidence from the lifeworks of Bronisław Malinowski and Michel Foucault. As such, it aims, minimally, to make sociology of knowledge decisively ‘cultural’. Maximally, it seeks to demonstrate that the iconic success of intellectual intervention in social theory depends on carefully performed and contingently mediated engagement with the binary systems of symbolic classification.Closehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431011423577Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Corriveau, LouisGame theory and the kula Rationality and Society, 24 (1), pp. 106–128, 2012, ISSN: 1043-4631.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: kula, work about Malinowski@article{corriveau_game_2012, title = {Game theory and the kula}, author = {Louis Corriveau}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043463111434700}, doi = {10.1177/1043463111434700}, issn = {1043-4631}, year = {2012}, date = {2012-01-01}, journal = {Rationality and Society}, volume = {24}, number = {1}, pages = {106--128}, abstract = {The paper expounds a non-cooperative game that can be interpreted as a model of the system of kula that was described by Bronislaw Malinowski in his Argonauts of the Western Pacific. The game of kula is an infinite-horizon game with an arbitrary, but fixed, number n of players. It generates pure norms of direct reciprocity, pure norms of indirect reciprocity, and mixed norms whereby a player who deviates is punished both by the individual who has been harmed and by a third party.}, keywords = {kula, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseThe paper expounds a non-cooperative game that can be interpreted as a model of the system of kula that was described by Bronislaw Malinowski in his Argonauts of the Western Pacific. The game of kula is an infinite-horizon game with an arbitrary, but fixed, number n of players. It generates pure norms of direct reciprocity, pure norms of indirect reciprocity, and mixed norms whereby a player who deviates is punished both by the individual who has been harmed and by a third party.Closehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043463111434700Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Meger, ZbigniewWhat binds Bronisław Malinowski with social networks? EduAction : Electronic Education Magazine, 3 (2), pp. 27–32, 2012, ISSN: 2081-870X.BibTeX | Tags: work about Malinowski@article{meger_what_2012, title = {What binds Bronisław Malinowski with social networks?}, author = {Zbigniew Meger}, issn = {2081-870X}, year = {2012}, date = {2012-01-01}, urldate = {2017-08-14}, journal = {EduAction : Electronic Education Magazine}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, pages = {27--32}, keywords = {work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseBook Lepani, KatherineIslands of love, islands of risk : culture and HIV in the Trobriands / Katherine Lepani Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, 2012, ISBN: 978-0-8265-1874-3 978-0-8265-1875-0, (Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-232) and index.).BibTeX | Tags: Trobriands, work about Malinowski@book{lepani_islands_2012, title = {Islands of love, islands of risk : culture and HIV in the Trobriands / Katherine Lepani}, author = {Katherine Lepani}, isbn = {978-0-8265-1874-3 978-0-8265-1875-0}, year = {2012}, date = {2012-01-01}, publisher = {Vanderbilt University Press}, address = {Nashville}, note = {Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-232) and index.}, keywords = {Trobriands, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Close 2011 Journal Article Beran, HarryThe Iconography of the War Shields of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: An Interpretation Recorded by Malinowski and Explained by Paramount Chief Pulayasi Pacific Arts. New Series, 11 (2), pp. 33–45, 2011.Links | BibTeX | Tags: material culture, Trobriands@article{beran_iconography_2011, title = {The Iconography of the War Shields of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: An Interpretation Recorded by Malinowski and Explained by Paramount Chief Pulayasi}, author = {Harry Beran}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23412131.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-01-01}, urldate = {2017-09-04}, journal = {Pacific Arts. New Series}, volume = {11}, number = {2}, pages = {33--45}, keywords = {material culture, Trobriands}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Closehttp://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23412131.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contentsCloseJournal Article Kuklick, HenrikaPersonal Equations: Reflections on the History of Fieldwork, with Special Reference to Sociocultural Anthropology Isis, 102 (1), pp. 1–33, 2011, ISSN: 0021-1753.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: ethnography, work about Malinowski@article{kuklick_personal_2011, title = {Personal Equations: Reflections on the History of Fieldwork, with Special Reference to Sociocultural Anthropology}, author = {Henrika Kuklick}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/658655}, doi = {10.1086/658655}, issn = {0021-1753}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-01-01}, journal = {Isis}, volume = {102}, number = {1}, pages = {1--33}, abstract = {ABSTRACT In the latter part of the nineteenth century, diverse sciences grounded in natural history made a virtue of field research that somehow tested scientists' endurance; disciplinary change derived from the premise that witnesses were made reliable by character-molding trials. The turn to the field was a function of structural transformations in various quarters, including (but hardly limited to) global politics, communications systems, and scientific institutions, and it conduced to biogeographical explanations, taxonomic schemes that admitted of heterogeneity, and affective research styles. Sociocultural anthropology, which took specialized shape at the beginning of the twentieth century, shared many properties with other field sciences, but its method—participant observation—was distinctive. Critical to the method's definition were the efforts of the British experimental psychologist-anthropologist W. H. R. Rivers, who relied on notions then widespread in Europe and the United States. The discipline's future mythic hero, Bronislaw Malinowski, embraced Rivers's model. For both men, proper fieldwork meant using the researcher's body as an instrument and entailed understanding both the anthropologist's body and the research subject's body as energy systems; this symmetry facilitated a relativist perspective. Participant observation remains central to sociocultural anthropology, but the discipline's pedagogic habits contributed to loss of memory of its energetic conceptualization.}, keywords = {ethnography, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseABSTRACT In the latter part of the nineteenth century, diverse sciences grounded in natural history made a virtue of field research that somehow tested scientists' endurance; disciplinary change derived from the premise that witnesses were made reliable by character-molding trials. The turn to the field was a function of structural transformations in various quarters, including (but hardly limited to) global politics, communications systems, and scientific institutions, and it conduced to biogeographical explanations, taxonomic schemes that admitted of heterogeneity, and affective research styles. Sociocultural anthropology, which took specialized shape at the beginning of the twentieth century, shared many properties with other field sciences, but its method—participant observation—was distinctive. Critical to the method's definition were the efforts of the British experimental psychologist-anthropologist W. H. R. Rivers, who relied on notions then widespread in Europe and the United States. The discipline's future mythic hero, Bronislaw Malinowski, embraced Rivers's model. For both men, proper fieldwork meant using the researcher's body as an instrument and entailed understanding both the anthropologist's body and the research subject's body as energy systems; this symmetry facilitated a relativist perspective. Participant observation remains central to sociocultural anthropology, but the discipline's pedagogic habits contributed to loss of memory of its energetic conceptualization.Closehttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/658655Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseMiscellaneous Beran, HarryDo kula canoes of the Massim region of Papua New Guinea have a bow, a stern, and prowboards? 2011.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: kula, material culture, New Guinea@misc{beran_kula_2011, title = {Do kula canoes of the Massim region of Papua New Guinea have a bow, a stern, and prowboards?}, author = {Harry Beran}, url = {http://www.materialworldblog.com/2011/03/do-kula-canoes-of-the-massim-region-of-papua-new-guinea-have-a-bow-a-stern-and-prowboards/}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-01-01}, urldate = {2017-09-05}, journal = {Material World}, abstract = {Harry Beran, independent researcher hberan@btinternet.com Two types of outrigger canoes are used in the kula. This exchange system of shell valuables in the Massim region (Milne Bay Province) of Papua New Guinea is described by Bronislaw Malinowski in Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1932) and by Leach and Leach in The Kula (1983). Western writers…}, keywords = {kula, material culture, New Guinea}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {misc} } CloseHarry Beran, independent researcher hberan@btinternet.com Two types of outrigger canoes are used in the kula. This exchange system of shell valuables in the Massim region (Milne Bay Province) of Papua New Guinea is described by Bronislaw Malinowski in Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1932) and by Leach and Leach in The Kula (1983). Western writers…Closehttp://www.materialworldblog.com/2011/03/do-kula-canoes-of-the-massim-region-of-[...]CloseMiscellaneous Darrah, Allan C; Crain, Jay BA Trobriand/Massim Bibliography. Seventh Edition 2011.Links | BibTeX | Tags: bibliography, Trobriands@misc{darrah_trobriand/massim_2011, title = {A Trobriand/Massim Bibliography. Seventh Edition}, author = {Allan C Darrah and Jay B Crain}, url = {http://trobriandsindepth.com/PDFs/Trobib%202011.pdf}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-01-01}, keywords = {bibliography, Trobriands}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {misc} } Closehttp://trobriandsindepth.com/PDFs/Trobib%202011.pdfCloseJournal Article Young, Michael WMalinowski last word on the anthropological approach to language Pragmatics. International Pragmatics Association, 21 (1), pp. 1–22, 2011.BibTeX | Tags: linguistics, work about Malinowski@article{young_malinowski_2011, title = {Malinowski last word on the anthropological approach to language}, author = {Michael W Young}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-01-01}, journal = {Pragmatics. International Pragmatics Association}, volume = {21}, number = {1}, pages = {1--22}, keywords = {linguistics, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseBook Parisi, RosaLo scheletro, la carne e il sangue: Malinowski e la magia dell'etnografo fra evocazioni, immagini e scrittura Aracne, Roma, 2011, ISBN: 978-88-548-4569-5.BibTeX | Tags: ethnography, work about Malinowski@book{parisi_lo_2011, title = {Lo scheletro, la carne e il sangue: Malinowski e la magia dell'etnografo fra evocazioni, immagini e scrittura}, author = {Rosa Parisi}, isbn = {978-88-548-4569-5}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-01-01}, publisher = {Aracne}, address = {Roma}, keywords = {ethnography, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } CloseBook Liebersohn, HarryThe return of the gift : European history of a global idea / Harry Liebersohn Cambridge University Press, New York, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-107-00218-0, (Formerly CIP. Includes bibliographical references and index.).BibTeX | Tags: kula, work about Malinowski@book{liebersohn_return_2011, title = {The return of the gift : European history of a global idea / Harry Liebersohn}, author = {Harry Liebersohn}, isbn = {978-1-107-00218-0}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-01-01}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {New York}, note = {Formerly CIP. Includes bibliographical references and index.}, keywords = {kula, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } CloseBook Schwaiger, HolgerSchenken Entwurf einer sozialen Morphologie aus Perspektive der Kommunikationstheorie UVK-Verl.-Ges., Konstanz, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-86764-327-6.BibTeX | Tags: @book{schwaiger_schenken_2011, title = {Schenken Entwurf einer sozialen Morphologie aus Perspektive der Kommunikationstheorie}, author = {Holger Schwaiger}, isbn = {978-3-86764-327-6}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-01-01}, publisher = {UVK-Verl.-Ges.}, address = {Konstanz}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } CloseJournal Article Pels, PeterGlobal 'experts' and 'African' minds: Tanganyika anthropology as public and secret service, 1925-61 The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 17 (4), pp. 788–810, 2011, ISSN: 1359-0987.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: applied anthropology, history of anthropology, work about Malinowski@article{pels_global_2011, title = {Global 'experts' and 'African' minds: Tanganyika anthropology as public and secret service, 1925-61}, author = {Peter Pels}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/41350755}, doi = {10.2307/41350755}, issn = {1359-0987}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-01-01}, journal = {The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute}, volume = {17}, number = {4}, pages = {788--810}, abstract = {Whereas many historians of British anthropology worried themselves about the complicity of anthropologists with colonial rule, and have tried to demonstrate a fundamental contradiction and gap between academic anthropologists and colonial administrators, a study of the professionalization of anthropology in Tanganyika Territory between 1930 and i960 can show that the ethnographic tradition of Tanganyika indirect rule slowly attuned itself to classical academic anthropology, just as classical academic anthropology increasingly adopted the agenda of indirect rule. The setting up of a Government Sociology department by the Tanganyika government after 1945 epitomized this rapprochement, but also reveals another, rarely studied, type of tension between academics and administrators: their different attitudes towards publicity and secrecy, both in relation to the international critics of the British colonial empire, and in relation to the African audiences that administrators, more than anthropologists, had to reckon with. Nombreux sont les historiens de l'anthropologie britannique qui se sont inquiété de la complicité des anthropologues avec la domination coloniale et ont tenté de mettre en lumière une contradiction fondamentale entre anthropologues académiques et administrateurs coloniaux. Une étude portant sur la professionnalisation de l'anthropologie dans le Territoire du Tanganyika entre 1930 et i960 montre pourtant que la tradition ethnographique du gouvernement indirect au Tanganyika s'est progressivement alignée sur l'anthropologie académique classique, en même temps que celle-ci se saisissait de plus en plus des thèmes du gouvernement indirect. La mise en place d'un département de Sociologie gouvernementale par le gouvernement du Tanganyika après 1945 marque l'apogée de ce rapprochement mais révèle en même temps un autre type de tension, rarement étudié, entre chercheurs et administrateurs : une attitude différente vis-à-vis de la publicité et du secret, qu'il s'agisse des critiques internationales de l'empire colonial britannique ou des relations avec les cercles d'opinion africains avec lesquels les administrateurs, bien plus que les anthropologues, devaient composer.}, keywords = {applied anthropology, history of anthropology, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseWhereas many historians of British anthropology worried themselves about the complicity of anthropologists with colonial rule, and have tried to demonstrate a fundamental contradiction and gap between academic anthropologists and colonial administrators, a study of the professionalization of anthropology in Tanganyika Territory between 1930 and i960 can show that the ethnographic tradition of Tanganyika indirect rule slowly attuned itself to classical academic anthropology, just as classical academic anthropology increasingly adopted the agenda of indirect rule. The setting up of a Government Sociology department by the Tanganyika government after 1945 epitomized this rapprochement, but also reveals another, rarely studied, type of tension between academics and administrators: their different attitudes towards publicity and secrecy, both in relation to the international critics of the British colonial empire, and in relation to the African audiences that administrators, more than anthropologists, had to reckon with. Nombreux sont les historiens de l'anthropologie britannique qui se sont inquiété de la complicité des anthropologues avec la domination coloniale et ont tenté de mettre en lumière une contradiction fondamentale entre anthropologues académiques et administrateurs coloniaux. Une étude portant sur la professionnalisation de l'anthropologie dans le Territoire du Tanganyika entre 1930 et i960 montre pourtant que la tradition ethnographique du gouvernement indirect au Tanganyika s'est progressivement alignée sur l'anthropologie académique classique, en même temps que celle-ci se saisissait de plus en plus des thèmes du gouvernement indirect. La mise en place d'un département de Sociologie gouvernementale par le gouvernement du Tanganyika après 1945 marque l'apogée de ce rapprochement mais révèle en même temps un autre type de tension, rarement étudié, entre chercheurs et administrateurs : une attitude différente vis-à-vis de la publicité et du secret, qu'il s'agisse des critiques internationales de l'empire colonial britannique ou des relations avec les cercles d'opinion africains avec lesquels les administrateurs, bien plus que les anthropologues, devaient composer.Closehttp://www.jstor.org/stable/41350755Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Larson, Frances“Did He Ever Darn His Stockings?” Beatrice Blackwood and the Ethnographic Authority of Bronislaw Malinowski History and Anthropology, 22 (1), pp. 75–92, 2011, ISSN: 0275-7206.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: work about Malinowski@article{larson_did_2011, title = {“Did He Ever Darn His Stockings?” Beatrice Blackwood and the Ethnographic Authority of Bronislaw Malinowski}, author = { Frances Larson}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2010.487869}, doi = {10.1080/02757206.2010.487869}, issn = {0275-7206}, year = {2011}, date = {2011-01-01}, journal = {History and Anthropology}, volume = {22}, number = {1}, pages = {75--92}, abstract = {Beatrice Blackwood (1889–1975) undertook fieldwork during a time of great change in British anthropology. This paper assesses the influence of Bronislaw Malinowksi on her research. Blackwood trained as a “generalist” at Oxford and worked in the anatomy department at the Oxford University Museum during the 1920s. My focus is on her 1929–1930 fieldwork in the Solomon Islands when she embarked on anthropological research in the intensive mode. Malinowski’s books, in particular, served to frame her expectations of herself as a successful fieldworker, but these expectations sat uncomfortably with her obligations to her Oxford superiors, Robert R. Marett, Arthur Thomson and Henry Balfour. This paper sets Blackwood’s aspirations in the field in the context of her education and work at the University of Oxford.}, keywords = {work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseBeatrice Blackwood (1889–1975) undertook fieldwork during a time of great change in British anthropology. This paper assesses the influence of Bronislaw Malinowksi on her research. Blackwood trained as a “generalist” at Oxford and worked in the anatomy department at the Oxford University Museum during the 1920s. My focus is on her 1929–1930 fieldwork in the Solomon Islands when she embarked on anthropological research in the intensive mode. Malinowski’s books, in particular, served to frame her expectations of herself as a successful fieldworker, but these expectations sat uncomfortably with her obligations to her Oxford superiors, Robert R. Marett, Arthur Thomson and Henry Balfour. This paper sets Blackwood’s aspirations in the field in the context of her education and work at the University of Oxford.Closehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2010.487869Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarClose 2010 Journal Article Vonarx, NicolasDe Bronislaw Malinowski à Virginia Henderson: révélation sur l'origine anthropologique d'un modèle de soins infirmiers Aporia The nursing Journal, 2 (4), pp. 19–28, 2010.Links | BibTeX | Tags: applied anthropology, work about Malinowski@article{vonarx_bronislaw_2010, title = {De Bronislaw Malinowski à Virginia Henderson: révélation sur l'origine anthropologique d'un modèle de soins infirmiers}, author = {Nicolas Vonarx}, url = {http://journaldatabase.info/articles/bronislaw_malinowski_virginia.html}, year = {2010}, date = {2010-01-01}, urldate = {2017-08-14}, journal = {Aporia The nursing Journal}, volume = {2}, number = {4}, pages = {19--28}, keywords = {applied anthropology, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Closehttp://journaldatabase.info/articles/bronislaw_malinowski_virginia.htmlCloseJournal Article Matera, MarcColonial Subjects: Black Intellectuals and the Development of Colonial Studies in Britain Journal of British Studies, 49 (2), pp. 388–418, 2010, ISSN: 0021-9371.Links | BibTeX | Tags: history of anthropology, work about Malinowski@article{matera_colonial_2010, title = {Colonial Subjects: Black Intellectuals and the Development of Colonial Studies in Britain}, author = {Marc Matera}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/23265207}, doi = {10.2307/23265207}, issn = {0021-9371}, year = {2010}, date = {2010-01-01}, journal = {Journal of British Studies}, volume = {49}, number = {2}, pages = {388--418}, keywords = {history of anthropology, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Closehttp://www.jstor.org/stable/23265207Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseBook Barth, Fredrik; Gingrich, Andre; Parkin, Robert; Silverman, SydelOne discipline, four ways: British, German, French, and American anthropology University of Chicago Press, 2010.BibTeX | Tags: history of anthropology@book{barth_one_2010, title = {One discipline, four ways: British, German, French, and American anthropology}, author = { Fredrik Barth and Andre Gingrich and Robert Parkin and Sydel Silverman}, year = {2010}, date = {2010-01-01}, publisher = {University of Chicago Press}, keywords = {history of anthropology}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Close 2009 Journal Article Mosko, Mark SThe Fractal Yam: Botanical Imagery and Human Agency in the Trobriands The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15 (4), pp. 679–700, 2009, ISSN: 1359-0987.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Trobriands, work about Malinowski@article{mosko_fractal_2009, title = {The Fractal Yam: Botanical Imagery and Human Agency in the Trobriands}, author = {Mark S Mosko}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/40541749}, doi = {10.2307/40541749}, issn = {1359-0987}, year = {2009}, date = {2009-01-01}, journal = {The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute}, volume = {15}, number = {4}, pages = {679--700}, abstract = {Anthropologists have long appreciated that animals are 'good to think'. In this essay I ponder whether plants might be good to think too, and particularly whether there is any sense in asking if plants (along with animals) might also be 'good to act'. The botanical metaphor of 'base', 'body', and 'tip' animates the origin structures of many if not most societies of the Austronesian world. Less attention has been directed at indigenous elaborations in other socio-cultural domains of the region. Based on recent fieldwork, I outline such ramifications in Trobriand culture, drawing upon the notions of fractal recursion and self-similarity from chaos theory wherein emergent 'tips' yield 'fruit' which become the condition or 'base' for further production and transformation. Accordingly, the base-body-tip-fruit metaphor serves as a cultural template or scenario for social action, shedding new interpretative light on many topics of long-standing anthropological interest (e. g. yam propagation, display, and exchange, kula, mortuary celebration, age categories, fame) as well as more recent theoretical interests. /// Les anthropologues ont compris il y a longtemps déjà que les animaux sont "bons à penser". Dans cet essai, l'auteur se demande si les plantes sont elles aussi bonnes à penser, et en particulier s'il vaut la peine de se demander si les plantes (comme les animaux) pourraient être "bonnes à agir". La métaphore botanique de "base", "corps" et "tête" anime les structures originelles de beaucoup de sociétés du monde austronésien, sinon toutes. On s'est moins intéressé aux élaborations indigènes de la région dans d'autres domaines socioculturels. Sur la base d'un récent travail de terrain, l'auteur retrace ces ramifications dans la culture trobriandaise, utilisant les notions de récursivité fractale et d'autosimilitude de la théorie du chaos, selon lesquelles les "têtes" donnent des "fruits" qui deviennent la condition ou "base" d'une nouvelle production et transformation. En conséquence, la métaphore base-corps-tête-fruit sert de modèle culturel ou de scénario d'action sociale, jetant un nouvel éclairage interprétatif sur de nombreux sujets qui intéressent depuis longtemps les anthropologues (tels que la propagation, la présentation et l'échange des ignames, la kula, les célébrations mortuaires, les classes d'âge, la renommée), mais aussi sur de nouvelles questions théoriques plus récentes.}, keywords = {Trobriands, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseAnthropologists have long appreciated that animals are 'good to think'. In this essay I ponder whether plants might be good to think too, and particularly whether there is any sense in asking if plants (along with animals) might also be 'good to act'. The botanical metaphor of 'base', 'body', and 'tip' animates the origin structures of many if not most societies of the Austronesian world. Less attention has been directed at indigenous elaborations in other socio-cultural domains of the region. Based on recent fieldwork, I outline such ramifications in Trobriand culture, drawing upon the notions of fractal recursion and self-similarity from chaos theory wherein emergent 'tips' yield 'fruit' which become the condition or 'base' for further production and transformation. Accordingly, the base-body-tip-fruit metaphor serves as a cultural template or scenario for social action, shedding new interpretative light on many topics of long-standing anthropological interest (e. g. yam propagation, display, and exchange, kula, mortuary celebration, age categories, fame) as well as more recent theoretical interests. /// Les anthropologues ont compris il y a longtemps déjà que les animaux sont "bons à penser". Dans cet essai, l'auteur se demande si les plantes sont elles aussi bonnes à penser, et en particulier s'il vaut la peine de se demander si les plantes (comme les animaux) pourraient être "bonnes à agir". La métaphore botanique de "base", "corps" et "tête" anime les structures originelles de beaucoup de sociétés du monde austronésien, sinon toutes. On s'est moins intéressé aux élaborations indigènes de la région dans d'autres domaines socioculturels. Sur la base d'un récent travail de terrain, l'auteur retrace ces ramifications dans la culture trobriandaise, utilisant les notions de récursivité fractale et d'autosimilitude de la théorie du chaos, selon lesquelles les "têtes" donnent des "fruits" qui deviennent la condition ou "base" d'une nouvelle production et transformation. En conséquence, la métaphore base-corps-tête-fruit sert de modèle culturel ou de scénario d'action sociale, jetant un nouvel éclairage interprétatif sur de nombreux sujets qui intéressent depuis longtemps les anthropologues (tels que la propagation, la présentation et l'échange des ignames, la kula, les célébrations mortuaires, les classes d'âge, la renommée), mais aussi sur de nouvelles questions théoriques plus récentes.Closehttp://www.jstor.org/stable/40541749Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarClose393 entries « ‹ 1 of 8 › »