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100 1 _aMalinowski, Bronislaw,
_d1884-1942
245 1 0 _aArgonauts of the Western Pacific :
_bAn Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2017
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonauts_of_the_Western_Pacific
500 _aRelease date is 2017-10-26
508 _aProduced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (Italy) for Project Gutenberg.
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aKula exchange -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands
653 _aMassim (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies
653 _aEthnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands
653 _aFolklore -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands
653 _aBarter -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands
653 _aTrobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs
700 1 _aFrazer, James George,
_d1854-1941
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55822
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