TY - BOOK AU - Malinowski,Bronislaw AU - Frazer,James George TI - Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea AV - GN PY - 2017/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Kula exchange -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands KW - Massim (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies KW - Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands KW - Folklore -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands KW - Barter -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands KW - Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs N1 - 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55822 ER -