Malinowski's Kiriwina Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918

Name: Malinowski's Kiriwina Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918
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ISBN: 9780226876504

ISBN-10: 0226876500

ISBN-13: 9780226876504

Edition: 1998

Authors: Michael W. Young

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Kiriwina, the largest of the Trobriand Islands in eastern Papua New Guinea, is anthropology's "sacred place." It was here that Bronislaw Malinowski conducted the path-breaking fieldwork that enabled him to revolutionize British social anthropology. And it was here that he developed one of anthropology's most important tools: photography. Malinowski's Kiriwina presents nearly two hundred of Malinowski's previously unpublished photographs, taken between 1915 and 1918, of the Trobriand Islanders. The images are more than embellishments of his ethnography; they are a recreation in striking detail of a distant world. Michael Young, an anthropologist and Malinowski's authorized biographer, has…

Book details

List price: $72.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 316
Size: 8.74" wide x 9.76" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English



List of Maps


Acknowledgments


Introduction A Note on Orthography "Trobriand Islands"




Samarai, "Gate to the Field"



Picturing the Ethnographer



Touluwa, Chief of Omarakana



Coral Gardens and Their Harvests



Dancing atMilamala



"Physical Types" and "Personalities"



"Magic"



Fishing and Canoes of the Lagoon



"Village Scenes"



Women's Domain



"The Children's Republic"



Mortuary Rites and Exchanges



Masawa Canoes and the Kula Quest



"Black and White"



Malinowski's Photographic Equipment



The Numbering of the Collection


Glossary Notes


Index