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@article{zinn_back_2018, title = {Back on the verandah and off again: Malinowski in South Tyrol and his ethnographic legacy}, author = {Dorothy Zinn and Elisabeth Tauber}, url = {http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3518}, doi = {10.7340/anuac2239-625X-3518}, issn = {2239-625X}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-12-01}, urldate = {2019-01-07}, journal = {Anuac}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, pages = {9--25}, abstract = {This essay introduces Anuac’s thematic section on Malinowski from two perspectives. The first part looks at Malinowski and Elsie Masson’s life in South Tyrol, contemplating the historical-political context of the region and bringing to light the Malinowski family’s presence and relations in the local setting. The verandah of the villa in Oberbozen is the starting point for a panoramic look on the land and its people, serving as a frame for a reconsideration of Malinowski. The second part traces the development of Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology (MFEA) at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, a project that since 2016 has been bringing to light new knowledge about the Malinowskis’ presence in South Tyrol. The Malinowski Forum is the backdrop to a Symposium that stimulated the articles presented here, with the aim of reflecting on ethnography today in terms of its continuities and discontinuities with respect to the canon established by Malinowski nearly a century ago.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseThis essay introduces Anuac’s thematic section on Malinowski from two perspectives. The first part looks at Malinowski and Elsie Masson’s life in South Tyrol, contemplating the historical-political context of the region and bringing to light the Malinowski family’s presence and relations in the local setting. The verandah of the villa in Oberbozen is the starting point for a panoramic look on the land and its people, serving as a frame for a reconsideration of Malinowski. The second part traces the development of Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology (MFEA) at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, a project that since 2016 has been bringing to light new knowledge about the Malinowskis’ presence in South Tyrol. The Malinowski Forum is the backdrop to a Symposium that stimulated the articles presented here, with the aim of reflecting on ethnography today in terms of its continuities and discontinuities with respect to the canon established by Malinowski nearly a century ago.Closehttp://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3518Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Gingrich, Andre; Knoll, Eva-MariaPilots of history: Ethnographic fieldwork and anthropology’s explorations of the past Anuac, 7 (2), pp. 27–48, 2018, ISSN: 2239-625X.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: @article{gingrich_pilots_2018, title = {Pilots of history: Ethnographic fieldwork and anthropology’s explorations of the past}, author = {Andre Gingrich and Eva-Maria Knoll}, url = {http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3521}, doi = {10.7340/anuac2239-625X-3521}, issn = {2239-625X}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-12-01}, urldate = {2019-01-07}, journal = {Anuac}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, pages = {27--48}, abstract = {The establishment of the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology in South Tyrol provides a good opportunity in the journal of Italy’s relevant academic association for a reconsideration of the current significance of ethnography, as initiated by Malinowski, for various scholarly fields in anthropology and beyond. One of these fields is historical anthropology and history in the broad sense of the term. This article seeks to explore how the Malinowskian legacy in ethnographic fieldwork may be usefully and productively activated and elaborated for historical fields and for historical anthropology. For this purpose, the first section will outline how Malinowski’s notion of an empirical field was open to all kinds of comparative interdisciplinary inquiries. Eventually, these also came to include history, despite Malinowski’s original well-known caveat in his time (Firth 2002). The second section will then elaborate the case example of maritime pilots as well as other cultural brokers with cosmopolitan expertise in the Indian Ocean, in order to demonstrate how ethnographic insights may support, enrich and complement historical data or, if these are absent, how they may become historically relevant indicators in their own right. A summary section points out that this leads to pioneering new tasks for anthropology.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseThe establishment of the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology in South Tyrol provides a good opportunity in the journal of Italy’s relevant academic association for a reconsideration of the current significance of ethnography, as initiated by Malinowski, for various scholarly fields in anthropology and beyond. One of these fields is historical anthropology and history in the broad sense of the term. This article seeks to explore how the Malinowskian legacy in ethnographic fieldwork may be usefully and productively activated and elaborated for historical fields and for historical anthropology. For this purpose, the first section will outline how Malinowski’s notion of an empirical field was open to all kinds of comparative interdisciplinary inquiries. Eventually, these also came to include history, despite Malinowski’s original well-known caveat in his time (Firth 2002). The second section will then elaborate the case example of maritime pilots as well as other cultural brokers with cosmopolitan expertise in the Indian Ocean, in order to demonstrate how ethnographic insights may support, enrich and complement historical data or, if these are absent, how they may become historically relevant indicators in their own right. A summary section points out that this leads to pioneering new tasks for anthropology.Closehttp://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3521Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Strathern, MarilynInfrastructures in and of ethnography Anuac, 7 (2), pp. 49–69, 2018, ISSN: 2239-625X.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: @article{strathern_infrastructures_2018, title = {Infrastructures in and of ethnography}, author = {Marilyn Strathern}, url = {http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3519}, doi = {10.7340/anuac2239-625X-3519}, issn = {2239-625X}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-12-01}, urldate = {2019-01-07}, journal = {Anuac}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, pages = {49--69}, abstract = {This contribution invites reflection on some of the conditions under which ethnographic enquiry is carried forward. Taking its cue from the concept of infrastructure, commonly understood as the practical supports underpinning an enterprise, it extends the notion to include ideas or assumptions that may be sustaining the purpose of enquiry. It thus takes practical and ideational supports in tandem. Intermittently visible, falling beyond the purview of the topics being investigated, and thus rather less than explicit contexts for research, the infrastructures of ethnographic work afford some insight into its changing circumstances. Importantly, these include changing orientations towards or conceptualizations of the kinds of objects of knowledge regarded as its ultimate aim. The reflections are exercised on materials from Oceania, from both the beginning and the end of the century that Bronisław Malinowski inaugurated upon his arrival in the Trobriand district of Kiriwina in 1915.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseThis contribution invites reflection on some of the conditions under which ethnographic enquiry is carried forward. Taking its cue from the concept of infrastructure, commonly understood as the practical supports underpinning an enterprise, it extends the notion to include ideas or assumptions that may be sustaining the purpose of enquiry. It thus takes practical and ideational supports in tandem. Intermittently visible, falling beyond the purview of the topics being investigated, and thus rather less than explicit contexts for research, the infrastructures of ethnographic work afford some insight into its changing circumstances. Importantly, these include changing orientations towards or conceptualizations of the kinds of objects of knowledge regarded as its ultimate aim. The reflections are exercised on materials from Oceania, from both the beginning and the end of the century that Bronisław Malinowski inaugurated upon his arrival in the Trobriand district of Kiriwina in 1915.Closehttp://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3519Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Siniscalchi, ValeriaFieldwork and changing scales: The analysis of different economic spaces Anuac, 7 (2), pp. 71–94, 2018, ISSN: 2239-625X.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: @article{siniscalchi_fieldwork_2018, title = {Fieldwork and changing scales: The analysis of different economic spaces}, author = {Valeria Siniscalchi}, url = {http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3523}, doi = {10.7340/anuac2239-625X-3523}, issn = {2239-625X}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-12-01}, urldate = {2019-01-07}, journal = {Anuac}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, pages = {71--94}, abstract = {How does the construction of fieldwork change when we expand beyond the “village” (in the sense of Malinowski), to investigate and assemble different scales of analysis? In this paper, I explore the role of fieldwork as built and delimited by specific, historically and theoretically situated research practices, making use of evolutions in the framework of my approach to “economic spaces” during my early fieldwork in the south of Italy. I look back at the intellectual environment of anthropology in Rome during the 1980s, paying attention to the kind of fieldwork that we conducted within one of the traditions of Italian anthropological studies. I then examine the “expansion” of fieldwork from my own experience during the study of the economic aspects of social phenomena.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseHow does the construction of fieldwork change when we expand beyond the “village” (in the sense of Malinowski), to investigate and assemble different scales of analysis? In this paper, I explore the role of fieldwork as built and delimited by specific, historically and theoretically situated research practices, making use of evolutions in the framework of my approach to “economic spaces” during my early fieldwork in the south of Italy. I look back at the intellectual environment of anthropology in Rome during the 1980s, paying attention to the kind of fieldwork that we conducted within one of the traditions of Italian anthropological studies. I then examine the “expansion” of fieldwork from my own experience during the study of the economic aspects of social phenomena.Closehttp://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3523Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Stacul, JaroThe end of informality? A few thoughts on Malinowski’s legacy and craftsmanship Anuac, 7 (2), pp. 95–117, 2018, ISSN: 2239-625X.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: @article{stacul_end_2018, title = {The end of informality? A few thoughts on Malinowski’s legacy and craftsmanship}, author = {Jaro Stacul}, url = {http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3522}, doi = {10.7340/anuac2239-625X-3522}, issn = {2239-625X}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-12-01}, urldate = {2019-01-07}, journal = {Anuac}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, pages = {95--117}, abstract = {This article explores the role of the deep, long-term fieldwork, pioneered by Bronisław Malinowski, and raises the issue of how far his fieldwork style remains a valuable tool at a time when people, goods, money, and knowledge travel with a speed and frequency that were unthinkable until very recently. Drawing upon reflections on the author’s own fieldwork in the Italian Alps, as well as on his experience as a university lecturer, it analyzes some of the changes that ethnographic fieldwork has undergone in the last few years in order to assess its value in the face of the pervasiveness of audit culture in the academia and of the emergence of an increasingly individualized society. The article pursues the argument that Malinowski’s research methods remain valuable not just as a heuristic device, but particularly as a practice promoting encounters with difference in the public sphere, and fostering participatory models of civic and political life.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseThis article explores the role of the deep, long-term fieldwork, pioneered by Bronisław Malinowski, and raises the issue of how far his fieldwork style remains a valuable tool at a time when people, goods, money, and knowledge travel with a speed and frequency that were unthinkable until very recently. Drawing upon reflections on the author’s own fieldwork in the Italian Alps, as well as on his experience as a university lecturer, it analyzes some of the changes that ethnographic fieldwork has undergone in the last few years in order to assess its value in the face of the pervasiveness of audit culture in the academia and of the emergence of an increasingly individualized society. The article pursues the argument that Malinowski’s research methods remain valuable not just as a heuristic device, but particularly as a practice promoting encounters with difference in the public sphere, and fostering participatory models of civic and political life.Closehttp://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3522Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Mathur, ChandanaRedefining ethnography «in the strict sense of the term»: Perspectives gained from non-standard, old-new fieldwork Anuac, 7 (2), pp. 119–131, 2018, ISSN: 2239-625X.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: @article{mathur_redefining_2018, title = {Redefining ethnography «in the strict sense of the term»: Perspectives gained from non-standard, old-new fieldwork}, author = {Chandana Mathur}, url = {http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3520}, doi = {10.7340/anuac2239-625X-3520}, issn = {2239-625X}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-12-01}, urldate = {2019-01-07}, journal = {Anuac}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, pages = {119--131}, abstract = {This essay reflects on the consequences for ethnography of the reversal of the direction of the anthropological encounter – what exactly happens when anthropologists from the Global South undertake fieldwork among populations in the Global North? I will argue that this does not merely correct historical imbalances of anthropological knowledge production, thereby changing the substance of that knowledge itself, although of course that is a goal worth pursuing, as has cogently been pointed out by the “world anthropologies” critique of hegemonic disciplinary practices. Using insights drawn from my own research site in the US heartland, where I conducted fieldwork initially in 1989-91, and then again during a “focused revisit” in 2015, I suggest that lasting misunderstandings between the anthropologist and the research participants are themselves a rich source of data and human possibility. My contention is that non-standard and long-term fieldwork of this kind may help reveal dimensions of the practice of ethnography that would otherwise remain obscured.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseThis essay reflects on the consequences for ethnography of the reversal of the direction of the anthropological encounter – what exactly happens when anthropologists from the Global South undertake fieldwork among populations in the Global North? I will argue that this does not merely correct historical imbalances of anthropological knowledge production, thereby changing the substance of that knowledge itself, although of course that is a goal worth pursuing, as has cogently been pointed out by the “world anthropologies” critique of hegemonic disciplinary practices. Using insights drawn from my own research site in the US heartland, where I conducted fieldwork initially in 1989-91, and then again during a “focused revisit” in 2015, I suggest that lasting misunderstandings between the anthropologist and the research participants are themselves a rich source of data and human possibility. My contention is that non-standard and long-term fieldwork of this kind may help reveal dimensions of the practice of ethnography that would otherwise remain obscured.Closehttp://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3520Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseMiscellaneous Young, Michael W« Le Jason de l’anthropologie : vie, œuvre et legs de Bronislaw Malinowski (...) - Bérose 2018.Links | BibTeX | Tags: @misc{young__2018, title = {« Le Jason de l’anthropologie : vie, œuvre et legs de Bronislaw Malinowski (...) - Bérose}, author = {Michael W Young}, url = {http://www.berose.fr/?Le-Jason-de-l-anthropologie-vie-oeuvre-et-legs-de-Bronislaw-Malinowski}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-01-01}, urldate = {2018-06-17}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {misc} } Closehttp://www.berose.fr/?Le-Jason-de-l-anthropologie-vie-oeuvre-et-legs-de-Bronisla[...]CloseMiscellaneous Zinn, Dorothy; Tauber, Elisabeth; Salvucci, DanielaHelena Malinowska Wayne textbar Anthropology-News 2018.Links | BibTeX | Tags: biography, work about Malinowski, work about Masson@misc{zinn_helena_2018, title = {Helena Malinowska Wayne textbar Anthropology-News}, author = {Dorothy Zinn and Elisabeth Tauber and Daniela Salvucci}, url = {http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2018/05/07/helena-malinowska-wayne/}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-01-01}, urldate = {2018-11-19}, journal = {Anthropology News}, keywords = {biography, work about Malinowski, work about Masson}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {misc} } Closehttp://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2018/05/07/helena-malinowska-wayne/CloseJournal Article Young, Michael WHelena Paula Wayne Malinowska (1925–2018) Anthropology Today, 34 (4), pp. 26–27, 2018, ISSN: 1467-8322.Links | BibTeX | Tags: biography, work about Malinowski, work about Masson@article{young_helena_2018, title = {Helena Paula Wayne Malinowska (1925–2018)}, author = {Michael W Young}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8322.12451}, doi = {10.1111/1467-8322.12451}, issn = {1467-8322}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-01-01}, journal = {Anthropology Today}, volume = {34}, number = {4}, pages = {26--27}, keywords = {biography, work about Malinowski, work about Masson}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Closehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8322.12451Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Zerilli, Filippo MEditorial: The Malinowskian legacy in ethnography, Gramsci anthropologist, Jonathan Friedman’s political correctness Anuac, 7 (2), pp. 3–7, 2018, ISSN: 2239-625X.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: @article{zerilli_editorial:_2018, title = {Editorial: The Malinowskian legacy in ethnography, Gramsci anthropologist, Jonathan Friedman’s political correctness}, author = {Filippo M Zerilli}, url = {http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3524}, doi = {10.7340/anuac2239-625X-3524}, issn = {2239-625X}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-01-01}, urldate = {2019-01-07}, journal = {Anuac}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, pages = {3--7}, abstract = {A note from the Editor-in-chief.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseA note from the Editor-in-chief.Closehttp://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/3524Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarClose 2017 Journal Article Cook, ScottMalinowski in Oaxaca: Implications of an unfinished project in economic anthropology, part I Critique of Anthropology, 37 (2), pp. 132–159, 2017, ISSN: 0308-275X.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: economics, Latin America, work about Malinowski@article{cook_malinowski_2017, title = {Malinowski in Oaxaca: Implications of an unfinished project in economic anthropology, part I}, author = {Scott Cook}, doi = {10.1177/0308275X15615926}, issn = {0308-275X}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-01}, journal = {Critique of Anthropology}, volume = {37}, number = {2}, pages = {132--159}, abstract = {Malinowski’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.}, 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.CloseCheck 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{elisabetta_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.ctt1rfsrtbCloseBook Rex, Bronislaw Malinowski: Don’t Let The Cosplay Fool You 2017.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: work about Malinowski@book{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}, 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 = {book} } 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}, 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.CloseCheck 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 ScholarCloseJournal Article Coleman, LeoFunctionalists Write II: Weird Empathy in Malinowski's Trobriand Ethnographies Anthropological Quarterly, 90 (4), pp. 973–1002, 2017, ISSN: 1534-1518.Links | BibTeX | Tags: @article{coleman_functionalists_2017, title = {Functionalists Write II: Weird Empathy in Malinowski's Trobriand Ethnographies}, author = {Leo Coleman}, url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/686164}, doi = {10.1353/anq.2017.0058}, issn = {1534-1518}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-01}, urldate = {2018-08-24}, journal = {Anthropological Quarterly}, volume = {90}, number = {4}, pages = {973--1002}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Closehttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/686164Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Brown, Hannah; Reed, Adam; Yarrow, ThomasIntroduction: towards an ethnography of meeting Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23 (S1), pp. 10–26, 2017, ISSN: 1467-9655.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: ethnography@article{brown_introduction:_2017, title = {Introduction: towards an ethnography of meeting}, author = {Hannah Brown and Adam Reed and Thomas Yarrow}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.12591}, doi = {10.1111/1467-9655.12591}, issn = {1467-9655}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-01}, journal = {Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute}, volume = {23}, number = {S1}, pages = {10--26}, abstract = {This introductory essay describes a novel approach to meetings in relation to broader literatures within and beyond anthropology. We suggest that notwithstanding many accounts in which meetings figure, little attention has been given to the mundane forms through which these work. Seeking to develop a distinctively ethnographic focus to these quotidian and ubiquitous procedures, we outline an approach that moves attention beyond a narrow concern with just their meaning and content. We highlight some of the innovative strands that develop from this approach, describing how the negotiation of relationships ‘within’ meetings is germane to the organization of ‘external’ contexts, including in relation to time, space, organizational structure, and society. The essay offers a set of provocations for rethinking approaches to bureaucracy, organizational process, and ethos through the ethnographic lens of meeting.}, keywords = {ethnography}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseThis introductory essay describes a novel approach to meetings in relation to broader literatures within and beyond anthropology. We suggest that notwithstanding many accounts in which meetings figure, little attention has been given to the mundane forms through which these work. Seeking to develop a distinctively ethnographic focus to these quotidian and ubiquitous procedures, we outline an approach that moves attention beyond a narrow concern with just their meaning and content. We highlight some of the innovative strands that develop from this approach, describing how the negotiation of relationships ‘within’ meetings is germane to the organization of ‘external’ contexts, including in relation to time, space, organizational structure, and society. The essay offers a set of provocations for rethinking approaches to bureaucracy, organizational process, and ethos through the ethnographic lens of meeting.Closehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.12591Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Salvucci, DanielaSegnalazioni. MFEA – Il progetto Malinowski Forum per l’Etnografia e l’Antropologia Ethnorêma, 13 , pp. 163–165, 2017, ISSN: 1826-8803.Links | BibTeX | Tags: work about Malinowski, work about Masson@article{salvucci_segnalazioni._2017, title = {Segnalazioni. MFEA – Il progetto Malinowski Forum per l’Etnografia e l’Antropologia}, author = {Daniela Salvucci}, url = {http://www.ethnorema.it/pdf/numero%2013/12%20Segnalazioni.pdf}, issn = {1826-8803}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-01}, journal = {Ethnorêma}, volume = {13}, pages = {163--165}, keywords = {work about Malinowski, work about Masson}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Closehttp://www.ethnorema.it/pdf/numero%2013/12%20Segnalazioni.pdfClose 2016 Journal Article Cook, ScottMalinowski in Oaxaca: Implications of an Unfinished Project in Economic Anthropology, Part II Critique of Anthropology, 2016, ISSN: 0308-275X.Links | BibTeX | Tags: economics, Latin America, work about Malinowski@article{cook_malinowski_2016, title = {Malinowski in Oaxaca: Implications of an Unfinished Project in Economic Anthropology, Part II}, author = {Scott Cook}, doi = {10.1177/0308275X16648750}, issn = {0308-275X}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, journal = {Critique of Anthropology}, keywords = {economics, Latin America, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseCheck 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.Abstract | 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}, abstract = {DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.}, keywords = {ethnography, history of anthropology, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseDOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.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/265CloseJournal 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_2016-1, title = {Malinowski, Herskovits, and the Controversy over Economics in Anthropology}, author = {Scott Cook and Michael W Young}, 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.CloseCheck 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 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 = {2015-03-01}, 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 ScholarCloseJournal Article Morgain, Rachel; Taylor, John PTransforming Relations of Gender, Person, and Agency in Oceania Oceania, 85 (1), pp. 1–9, 2015, ISSN: 1834-4461.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Oceania@article{morgain_transforming_2015, title = {Transforming Relations of Gender, Person, and Agency in Oceania}, author = {Rachel Morgain and John P Taylor}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ocea.5069}, doi = {10.1002/ocea.5069}, issn = {1834-4461}, year = {2015}, date = {2015-03-01}, journal = {Oceania}, volume = {85}, number = {1}, pages = {1--9}, abstract = {This introduction contextualises the nine papers that make up the special issue Gender and Person in Oceania. Gender and personhood represent core orienting concepts within Pacific anthropology, from the pioneering work of Marilyn Strathern's Gender of the Gift to more recent scholarly attention to the impact of Christianity and modernity. The papers in this volume offer a comparative and critical perspective on long-standing ideas of ‘relational’ and ‘individual’ personhood across multiple sites in Oceania, highlighting several key insights, including the importance of situated and relational understandings of agency and the centrality of those ‘things’ typically seen as non-agentive to the formation of personhood. Most importantly, while re-establishing the inseparable articulation of personhood with gendered dynamics, the contributors to this volume also highlight the differential, transforming, and shifting nature of engendered personhood, revealed through close attention to local knowledge, conditions, and practices.}, keywords = {Oceania}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseThis introduction contextualises the nine papers that make up the special issue Gender and Person in Oceania. Gender and personhood represent core orienting concepts within Pacific anthropology, from the pioneering work of Marilyn Strathern's Gender of the Gift to more recent scholarly attention to the impact of Christianity and modernity. The papers in this volume offer a comparative and critical perspective on long-standing ideas of ‘relational’ and ‘individual’ personhood across multiple sites in Oceania, highlighting several key insights, including the importance of situated and relational understandings of agency and the centrality of those ‘things’ typically seen as non-agentive to the formation of personhood. Most importantly, while re-establishing the inseparable articulation of personhood with gendered dynamics, the contributors to this volume also highlight the differential, transforming, and shifting nature of engendered personhood, revealed through close attention to local knowledge, conditions, and practices.Closehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ocea.5069Check 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.Abstract | 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}, abstract = {DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.}, keywords = {history, work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseDOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.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 Young, Michael WWhat Did Malinowski Eat in Papua? Anthropology Now, 7 (2), pp. 37–46, 2015, ISSN: 1942-8200.Links | BibTeX | Tags: work about Malinowski@article{young_what_2015, title = {What Did Malinowski Eat in Papua?}, author = {Michael W Young}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2015.1058122}, doi = {10.1080/19428200.2015.1058122}, issn = {1942-8200}, year = {2015}, date = {2015-01-01}, journal = {Anthropology Now}, volume = {7}, number = {2}, pages = {37--46}, keywords = {work about Malinowski}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Closehttps://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2015.1058122Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarClose 2014 Journal Article Pickles, Anthony JIntroduction: Gambling as Analytic in Melanesia Oceania, 84 (3), pp. 207–221, 2014, ISSN: 1834-4461.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Melanesia@article{pickles_introduction:_2014, title = {Introduction: Gambling as Analytic in Melanesia}, author = {Anthony J Pickles}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ocea.5057}, doi = {10.1002/ocea.5057}, issn = {1834-4461}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-11-01}, journal = {Oceania}, volume = {84}, number = {3}, pages = {207--221}, abstract = {In Euro-American intellectual discourse gambling has become a metaphor for understanding social life, while in public life gambling is the subject of moralizing, medicalization, and gendered conflict over its status as leisure or vice. This introduction explores how one might approach the ways in which Melanesian peoples have comprehended their own worlds through gambling. I invite readers to consider our portrayals of indigenous ideas of ‘what gambling is about’ as alternative theorizations of gambling as a phenomenon. These theories of gambling are based upon cosmological premises that may appear unusual but which nevertheless intersect productively with Euro-American typologies of gambling and gamblers. To propagate this, my introduction first provides a brief history of gambling in Melanesia, and secondly places the special issue with respect to the relevant tropes in the sociology and anthropology of gambling, and the interdisciplinary field of gambling studies. A final section compares intersecting themes across the articles that together provide the basis of a collective intervention into gambling-related fields.}, keywords = {Melanesia}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseIn Euro-American intellectual discourse gambling has become a metaphor for understanding social life, while in public life gambling is the subject of moralizing, medicalization, and gendered conflict over its status as leisure or vice. This introduction explores how one might approach the ways in which Melanesian peoples have comprehended their own worlds through gambling. I invite readers to consider our portrayals of indigenous ideas of ‘what gambling is about’ as alternative theorizations of gambling as a phenomenon. These theories of gambling are based upon cosmological premises that may appear unusual but which nevertheless intersect productively with Euro-American typologies of gambling and gamblers. To propagate this, my introduction first provides a brief history of gambling in Melanesia, and secondly places the special issue with respect to the relevant tropes in the sociology and anthropology of gambling, and the interdisciplinary field of gambling studies. A final section compares intersecting themes across the articles that together provide the basis of a collective intervention into gambling-related fields.Closehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ocea.5057Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Mosko, Mark SCards on Kiriwina: Magic, Cosmology, and the ‘Divine Dividual’ in Trobriand Gambling Oceania, 84 (3), pp. 239–255, 2014, ISSN: 1834-4461.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Trobriand Islands@article{mosko_cards_2014, title = {Cards on Kiriwina: Magic, Cosmology, and the ‘Divine Dividual’ in Trobriand Gambling}, author = {Mark S Mosko}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ocea.5058}, doi = {10.1002/ocea.5058}, issn = {1834-4461}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-11-01}, journal = {Oceania}, volume = {84}, number = {3}, pages = {239--255}, abstract = {Trobriand Islanders adopted card gambling from Europeans in colonial times alongside a growing familiarity with introduced money and commodities. Most ethnographic reports of gambling elsewhere in PNG have concentrated on its secular aspects. Here I focus on its ritual dimension summarized by the notion of laki (‘lucky’) as expressed in the agentive capacities of a new player, the ‘divine dividual’, who synthesizes elements of Sahlins's ‘divine king’ and the ‘dividual’ of the New Melanesian Ethnography. In accord with the local understandings of spiritual agency, many Trobriand men have adapted pre-existing magical practices for courting, kula, fishing, sorcery etc. to gambling by seeking to encompass the perceived powers of exogenous Europeans, acknowledged as the sources of laki, money and commodities, into their own persons in ways analogous to traditional magicians' reliance upon baloma spirits. Trobriand gambling thus exemplifies how change following from the introduction of novel Western practices can be effectively accommodated to preexisting religious and cultural practices through indigenous modes of personhood and agency.}, keywords = {Trobriand Islands}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } CloseTrobriand Islanders adopted card gambling from Europeans in colonial times alongside a growing familiarity with introduced money and commodities. Most ethnographic reports of gambling elsewhere in PNG have concentrated on its secular aspects. Here I focus on its ritual dimension summarized by the notion of laki (‘lucky’) as expressed in the agentive capacities of a new player, the ‘divine dividual’, who synthesizes elements of Sahlins's ‘divine king’ and the ‘dividual’ of the New Melanesian Ethnography. In accord with the local understandings of spiritual agency, many Trobriand men have adapted pre-existing magical practices for courting, kula, fishing, sorcery etc. to gambling by seeking to encompass the perceived powers of exogenous Europeans, acknowledged as the sources of laki, money and commodities, into their own persons in ways analogous to traditional magicians' reliance upon baloma spirits. Trobriand gambling thus exemplifies how change following from the introduction of novel Western practices can be effectively accommodated to preexisting religious and cultural practices through indigenous modes of personhood and agency.Closehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ocea.5058Check for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseBook Young, Michael WWriting his Life through the Other: The Anthropology of Malinowski 2014.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: biography, work about Malinowski@book{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}, 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 = {book} } 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}, 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.CloseCheck 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}, 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} } CloseCheck for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseJournal Article Borš, VanjaBronisław Malinowski: Deus ex machina of anthropology Holon, 4 (1), pp. 97–113, 2014.Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: work about Malinowski@article{bors_bronislaw_2014, title = {Bronisław Malinowski: Deus ex machina of anthropology}, author = {Vanja Borš}, url = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/doaj/18483518/2014/00000004/00000001/art00002}, 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.Closehttp://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/doaj/18483518/2014/00000004/00000001/art00[...]CloseBook Holdsworth, ChrisBronislaw Malinowski. In Oxford Bibliographies 2014.Links | BibTeX | Tags: bibliography about Malinowski@book{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 = {book} } 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/1887/24890CloseBook Street, AliceBiomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital Duke University Press, 2014, ISBN: 978-0-8223-7666-8, (Google-Books-ID: kOnpBQAAQBAJ).Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Oceania@book{street_biomedicine_2014, title = {Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital}, author = {Alice Street}, isbn = {978-0-8223-7666-8}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, publisher = {Duke University Press}, abstract = {Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is the story of people's struggle to make biomedicine work in a public hospital in Papua New Guinea. It is a story encompassing the history of hospital infrastructures as sites of colonial and postcolonial governance, the simultaneous production of Papua New Guinea as a site of global medical research and public health, and people's encounters with urban institutions and biomedical technologies. In Papua New Guinea, a century of state building has weakened already inadequate colonial infrastructures, and people experience the hospital as a space of institutional, medical, and ontological instability.In the hospital's clinics, biomedical practitioners struggle amid severe resource shortages to make the diseased body visible and knowable to the clinical gaze. That struggle is entangled with attempts by doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to external others—to kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons. Here hospital infrastructures emerge as relational technologies that are fundamentally fragile but also offer crucial opportunities for making people visible and knowable in new, unpredictable, and powerful ways.}, note = {Google-Books-ID: kOnpBQAAQBAJ}, keywords = {Oceania}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } CloseBiomedicine in an Unstable Place is the story of people's struggle to make biomedicine work in a public hospital in Papua New Guinea. It is a story encompassing the history of hospital infrastructures as sites of colonial and postcolonial governance, the simultaneous production of Papua New Guinea as a site of global medical research and public health, and people's encounters with urban institutions and biomedical technologies. In Papua New Guinea, a century of state building has weakened already inadequate colonial infrastructures, and people experience the hospital as a space of institutional, medical, and ontological instability.In the hospital's clinics, biomedical practitioners struggle amid severe resource shortages to make the diseased body visible and knowable to the clinical gaze. That struggle is entangled with attempts by doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to external others—to kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons. Here hospital infrastructures emerge as relational technologies that are fundamentally fragile but also offer crucial opportunities for making people visible and knowable in new, unpredictable, and powerful ways.Close 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{alvarez_malinowski_2013, title = {Malinowski and the New Humanism}, author = {Oscar Fernández Alvarez}, 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.CloseCheck for possible fulltext in Google ScholarCloseBook Bolton, Lissant; Thomas, Nicholas; Adams, Julie; Bonshek, Elizabeth; Burt, BenMelanesia: Art and Encounter - Krisostomus British Museum Press, 2013.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}, keywords = {material culture, Melanesia}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } 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{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/1810/245193CloseBook Selleck, R J WFinding home : the Masson family North Melbourne, Vic. Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-921875-88-5.Links | BibTeX | Tags: work about Masson@book{selleck_finding_2013, title = {Finding home : the Masson family}, author = {R J W Selleck}, url = {https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/200878298}, isbn = {978-1-921875-88-5}, year = {2013}, date = {2013-01-01}, publisher = {North Melbourne, Vic. Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd}, keywords = {work about Masson}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Closehttps://trove.nla.gov.au/version/200878298Close438 entries « ‹ 1 of 9 › »