Product Description

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1621510 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.74 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 632 pages

From the Publisher
Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Bohannan- van der Elst, Asking and Listening: Ethnography as Personal Adaptation (ISBN 0881339873); Malinowski, Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays (ISBN 0881336572); and Pomponio, Seagulls Don't Fly Into the Bush: Cultural Identity and Development in Melanesia (ISBN 1577661540).

About the Author
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Anglo-Polish anthropologist, was born in what was then Austrian Poland of a long line of Polish nobility and landed gentry. He was educated at the Polish University of Cracow, from which he received his doctorate in 1908 with the highest honors of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He also studied at the University of Leipzig and later went on to London, where from 1910 he was associated with the London School of Economics. From 1914 to 1918 Dr. Malinowski was a member of the Robert Mond Expedition to New Guinea and North Melanesia, and it was the research done on this expedition that was later published in Argonauts of the Western Pacific. In later years Dr. Malinowski taught at the University of London, at Cornell University, and at Yale University.