| Description |
xxix, 690 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I: 1884-1910 -- Father and son -- Mother love -- Early travels -- Essential friendships -- University student -- Decadents -- An ascetic in the canaries -- The music of live in Leipzig -- II: 1910-1914 -- A London spring -- Finnish connections -- Zenia -- Totems, teachers and patron saints -- Tośka -- A passage to Ceylon -- III: 1914-1920 -- An alien in Australia -- 'The promised land' -- Mailu -- Sinaugolo -- Autumn in Adelaide -- Kiriwina -- Melbourne maladies -- Elsie Rosaline -- Samarai -- Return to the islands -- Fear, love and loathing -- 'A most damnable lack of character' -- Marriage -- Country retreats. |
| Summary |
"Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was one of the most colourful and charismatic social scientists of the twentieth century. His contributions as a founding father of social anthropology and his complex personality earned him international notoriety and near-mythical status. This book presents a portrait of Malinowski's early life, from his birth in Cracow to his departure from Australia in 1920. By the age of 36, Malinowski had already created the innovative fieldwork methods and techniques that would secure his intellectual legacy." "Young draws on an array of primary documents, including Malinowski's letters and unpublished diaries and manuscripts, and presents new information on the anthropologist's personality, private life, and early career. He describes Malinowski's restless life of travel - some of it in the imaginary footsteps of his literary hero and compatriot, Joseph Conrad - from Cracow to the Mediterranean and the Canary Island, Leipzig, London, Warsaw, Zakopane, Ceylon, Australia, colonial Papua, and the Trobriand Islands. Young also explores Malinowski's complicated relationships with women and with some of the greatest scholars of his generation."--Jacket. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Dr. James H. Poivan, Professor of History, Emeritus. |
| Subject |
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942.
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Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942. |
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Anthropologists -- Poland -- Biography.
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Anthropologists. |
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Poland. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Anthropologists -- Papua New Guinea -- Biography.
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Papua New Guinea. |
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Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea.
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Ethnology. |
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Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0300102941 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780300102949 cloth alkaline paper |
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