The Argonauts by Malinowski

Regarding Kura and the original economy, how is Malinowski wrong and it does not matter? "Imagine suddenly being surrounded by all fixtures on a tropical beach close to a local village, seeing launch and dinghy ... ... You are a beginner and have no previous experience Imagine that there is no one who can lead you or anyone who will help you.

Malinowski is known as "Kura Ring" which is the basis of his most famous work "Western Pacific Argo Hero" (1922) to exchange shell jewelry around a distant island I studied the system. Argonauts shows how good exchange of goods without obvious use value promotes trade, negotiates status, and expands relationships. Malinowski believes that replacement operation will be a substitute for war. He introduced several new courses such as 'Relationship system in primitive society' and 'Unique culture and myth' and extended the lecture time on average from 40 to 120 per year, and immediately held a seminar every week . - I am still running today - it has become a draw. These seminars were held in a small room ... there was a fire with fire burning, and Malinowski sat on a big basketball chair and was bequoted to him by sociologist Edward Westermarck.

The first and most famous Trobrian monograph of Malinowski, Argos of the Western Pacific (1922) is a rich example of the exchange of ceremonial rituals made made of shellfish. This exchange is connected to other islands in Eastern New Guinea. As a colorful scientific traveler, Argonauts will take its readers to a canoe over the so-called Kula Ring of Islands. The author's "Introduction" (also known as the Genesis of the Genesis Bible) contains 25 pages of the most influential history of social anthropology.

Today, most anthropologists are the author of epoch - making ethnographic magazines such as Bronislaw Malinowski, Western Pacific Argo Heroes (first published in 1922), founder of ethnographic fieldwork, I will refer to the observation of "The practice" Ethnography of Malinowski at the beginning of the 20th century was deleted and the relationship between ethnologists' nature and the people he studied was not revealed at all. Since the Malinowski era, personal travel records have been hidden in memos and diaries. These "liberation" works record the acquiescence of emotional and emotional experiences. Malinowski's diary was published in this field after his death in the field of autobiographical depiction of his inner life ("Strict Diary", first published in 1967)