Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Malinowski, B. (1922). Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. Routledge.

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Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1922

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economics_finance, political_science, sociology_anthropology

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• Exchange
  • Malinowski's (1922) ethnography of Trobriand kula made the point definitively: a structured reciprocal-transfer relation can be elaborately formalized without money, prices, or markets, and the analytic vocabulary of exchange applies directly.
• Proximity Capture
  • The role-separation requirement is explicit: an ethnographer's value to their discipline depends on maintaining a frame distinct from the community studied — they must be able to render that community's practices intelligible to outsiders, which requires not adopting them wholesale. Sustained proximity is the method itself: months or years of participant-observation, living inside the community's daily life, language, and concerns.

    This sourceFounding statement of immersive participant-observation, the method whose sustained proximity creates the 'going native' risk.

• Reciprocity

  • This sourceEthnography of the Trobriand kula ring, an inter-island ceremonial-exchange system in which armshells (mwali) and necklaces (soulava) circulate in opposite directions among partners under elaborately codified terms; demonstrates that a structured reciprocal-transfer relation can be highly formalized without money, prices, or markets.

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