Argonauts of the western Pacific
an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
Economic anthropology
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"Bronislaw Malinowski's pathbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific is at once a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology. Malinowski argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never lose sight is 'to grasp the native's point of …
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