An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea Malinowski, Bronislaw 1884-1942 creator Frazer, James George 1854-1941 text utu 2017 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" by Bronisław Malinowski is an ethnography published in 1922. This groundbreaking work documents the Trobriand people of the Kiriwana island chain near New Guinea, focusing on their complex trading system called the kula. Malinowski revolutionized anthropology by practicing "participant observation"—living among his subjects rather than studying them from afar. The book redefined ethnographic fieldwork and established intensive fieldwork as the foundation of modern social anthropology, earning comparison to Shakespeare's impact on literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonauts_of_the_Western_Pacific Release date is 2017-10-26 Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (Italy) for Project Gutenberg. Original publication data not identified Kula exchange -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands Massim (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands Folklore -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands Barter -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs GN Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55822 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55822 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134303.0 55822