Malinowski : odyssey of an anthropologist, 1884-1920 / Michael W. Young
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- Young, Michael W., 1937-
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004
- xxix, 690 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., geneal. table, ports., map ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0300102941
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"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"Young draws on an array of primary documents, including Malinowski's letters and unpublished diaries and manuscripts, and presents new information on the anthropologist's personality, private life, and early career.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."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Odyssey Of An Anthropologist, 1884-1920
- Michael W. Young
- Part I
- Chapter 1 FATHER AND SON
- 'A special passion'
- A nobel ethos
- Educating Lucjan
- 'A double life'
- Evading father's gaze
- Oedipus sighted
- Chapter 2 MOTHER LOVE
- Maternal origins
- Childhood
- 'Men of knowledge'
- Schooling
- 'Owing to illness'
- 'A fanatical devotion'
- Chapter 3 EARLY TRAVELS
- 'An enthusiasm for the exotic'
- Postcards
- 'No language, no penetration!'
- Dreaming the Adriatic
- Venice by the back door
- Chapter 4 ESSENTIAL FRIENDS
- Snapshots
- Fathering genius
- Zarathustras of Zakopane
- 'Rut and debauch' in Cracow
- Chapter 5 UNIVERSITY STUDENT
- Entering the Jagiellonian
- 'A bias towards law and regularities'
- Professors and mentors
- The seduction of philosophy
- The economy of Malinowski's thinking
- A nav̐e realist
- Chapter 6 DECADENTS
- Parallel lives
- Bungo and the Duke of Nevermore
- Triangles
- A decadent affair
- Chapter 7 AN ASCETIC IN THE CANARIES
- To the islands
- The diary of an ascetic
- 'Towards a concentration of forces'
- Testing the will
- 'The whip raised'
- Oscillations
- The island world of reflection
- The Emperor's ring
- Chapter 8 THE MUSIC OF LOVE IN LEIPZIG
- A travelling affair
- 'Keep a diary!'
- Dualities
- 'Intellectual dilettantism'
- Annie in Weimar
- 'Decorative loneliness'
- Happiness regained
- Stepping Westward
- Part Ii
- Chapter 9 A LONDON SPRING
- 'A highly developed Anglomania'
- 'Trembling uncertainty'
- The Cambridge School
- Reading Rivers
- Meeting mentors
- Chapter 10 FINNISH CONNECTIONS
- Starting sociology
- Wheeler, Czaplicka, Borenius
- Aborigines and the family
- Polish visitors
- Work and magic in Portsmouth
- Stocktaking in Zakopane
- Chapter 11 ENIA
- Sligs of the Sudan
- A diary of love, work and dreams
- Love's drama
- The seduction of study
- 'Sex really is dangerous'
- 'I guard against dreams as lies'
- Working for enia in absentia
- 'Good-bye to happiness'
- 'I take everything emotionally'
- The end of the affair
- The consolation of Karola
- 'Landed on an unknown shore'
- Chapter 12 TOTEMS, TEACHERS AND PATRON SAINTS
- 'Something is happening'
- Bearding Frazer
- Wading into Rivers
- Pricking Durkheim's bubble
- Autumn in Poland
- Fieldwork prospects
- Chapter 13 TOKA
- 'An incomparable mistress'
- Farewell to Annie
- Easter in Ventnor
- 'You fool around too much'
- Unhappy returns
- Return to Toka
- Equipping the colonial explorer
- Farewell to Toka
- Chapter 14 A PASSAGE TO CEYLON
- Ship of fools
- 'The tropics are beyond all my imaginings'
- Crossing the line
- Part Iii
- Chapter 15 AN ALIEN IN AUSTRALIA
- First contact
- The Empire at war
- Adelaide
- Melbourne
- Sydney
- Brisbane: 'Finis amicitiae'
- 'An expedition all on my own to the tropics'
- Chapter 16 'THE PROMISED LAND'
- A view from the verandah
- Murray's Papua
- Beginning fieldwork
- Expedition to the Laloki
- 'A burden to the Commonwealth'
- Sailing to Mailu
- Chapter 17 MAILU
- In the realm of the missionary
- Alienation
- 'Haddon & Co.'
- 'Touches of colour'
- To Samarai and Suau
- Mailu revisited
- Chapter 18 SINAUGOLO
- Moresby interlude
- The English domain at Rigo
- Woodlark Island
- 'I have decidedly won a victory'
- Chapter 19 AUTUMN IN ADELAIDE
- An arresting welcome
- Writing Mailu
- The politics of publishing
- 'One of the most beautiful young women'
- 'Gate to the field'
- Chapter 20 KIRIWINA
- The government officer's Trobriands
- Trouble with magistrates
- The capital of Kiriwina
- Enter the Ethnographer
- 'The kaleidoscope of tribal life'
- Temptations
- 'My Dear Seligman'
- 'My Dearest Little Son'
- Nina the muse
- Chapter 21 MELBOURNE MALADIES
- 'Only integrate'
- 'The first epoch'
- Friends in need
- Writing Baloma
- Ancestral approval
- Indiscretions, calumnies and restrictions
- 'Health. The basic element
- Chapter 22 ELSIE ROSALINE
- The Massons
- Trotsky of the wards
- The Clan
- Troublesome triangles
- The test of Adelaide
- 'Kiriwina', a monograph unborn
- Reluctant departures
- Chapter 23 SAMARAI
- The voyage of the Makambo
- The Odyssey resumed
- A prisoner of conscience
- Diaries
- Doubles
- 'Signing on'
- Chapter 24 RETURN TO THE ISLANDS
- The traders' Trobriands
- Tenting in Oburaku
- 'I let time do the rest'
- 'The condition of the performer'
- 'The shadow of death'
- 'The heroic struggle against illness'
- The turmoil of letters
- The Ethnographer's legend
- Chapter 25 FEAR, LOVE AND LOATHING
- 'Creating' the Amphletts
- Lies and superstitions
- Francophila in Sinaketa
- Tiberius in Vakuta
- A linguistic interlude
- Chapter 26 'A DAMNABLE LACK OF CHARACTER'
- Children of Teyava
- 'I am extremely ambitious'
- Mourning in Omarakana
- Plots and counter-ploys
- 'Truly I lack real character'
- 'A state of metaphysical instability'
- Chapter 27 MARRIAGE
- Leaving the field
- An unsuitable suitor
- 'A definite methodological mission'
- Keeping the vigil
- The wedding
- Seminars on 'social ideas'
- Chapter 28 COUNTRY RETREATS
- Under the cupola
- Escape to Wangaratta
- Nursing Paul
- Particles in Whitfield
- A museum display
- 'Adieu to Australia'
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [658]-670) and index.
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