Malinowskis Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory and method, while simultaneously establishing the sub-field of economic anthropology. Even a century after its publication, Malinowskis pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives. It critically explores the meaning of economy for Malinowski from his formation in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to his path-breaking fieldwork in Melanesia and ensuing career in London.
Recenzijos
This book is remarkably interesting and useful in its composition; it takes us into completely new theoretical territory while tethering conversation back to the moment when Malinowski radically altered the aims of anthropological investigation. Huon Wardle, St. Andrews University
This book revisits old themes in innovative and creative ways, and provides new understandings of Malinowskis contributions to anthropology generally and economic anthropology specifically. The co-editors should be applauded for bringing together a very impressive group of scholars, many of whom have published major works on the history and contributions of Malinowski. Peter D. Little, Emory University
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Argonauts Revisited
Chris Hann and Deborah James
Part I: Bronislaw Malinowski and his Argonauts in Context
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1. Cultural Capital and Economic Stringency: Reality and Myth in
Bronisaw Malinowskis Socio-Economic Background
Grayna Kubica
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2. Tenerife 1921: The Writing of Argonauts
Michael W. Young
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3. Malinowskis New Paradigm
Adam Kuper
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4. Malinowski and the Politics of Economic Anthropology: Between
Imperial Trusteeship and Colonial Trade
Freddy Foks
Part II: Economy, Economics, and Epistemics
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5. Compulsion to Work? Malinowski and the Labour Question
Rachel E. Smith
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6. On Tribal and Other Economies
Richard Staley
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7. Malinowskis Place in the History of Economic Thought
Chris Gregory
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8. Can Economic Anthropology Escape from Primitive Economics?
Thinking Ethnographically from the Oikos
Benoīt de LEstoile
Part III: Cosmology, History, and Social Organization
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9. Baloma: The Spirits of the Kula in the Trobriand Islands
Mark S. Mosko
*This chapter is available Open Access under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Mark Mosko.
Chapter
10. The Archaeology of the Kula and Malinowskis Notion of Economy
Hans Steinmüller
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11. Using Laozi to Interpret the Kula Ring: Rethinking the Dual
Chieftainship in Kiriwina
Yongjia Liang
Part IV: Adaptations in Space and Time
Chapter
12. Passing On, Passing Around, and Passing Through: Urban
Inheritance in South Africa as Circulation
Maxim Bolt
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13. The Anthropological Turn in the Sociology of Money
Ariel Wilkis
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14. The Digital Argonauts of the Western Pacific: From Kula Ring to
Bush Internet
Geoffrey Hobbis and Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis
Afterword
Rebecca Empson
Index
Chris Hann is Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Saale). His publications include Repatriating Polanyi: Market Society in the Visegrįd States (Budapest 2019) and Work, Society, and the Ethical Self: Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era (New York/Oxford 2021).
