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Author:

Young, Michael W., 1937-

Title:

Malinowski : odyssey of an anthropologist, 1884-1920 / Michael W. Young.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xxix, 690 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Malinowski, Bronislaw,--1884-1942.
Anthropologists--Poland--Biography.
Anthropologists--Papua New Guinea--Biography.
Ethnology--Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.
Malinowski, Bronislaw,--1884-1942.
Anthropologues--Pologne--Biographies.
Anthropologues--Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée--Biographies.
Ethnologie--Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée--Mœurs et coutumes.
Culturele antropologie.
Antropologen.
Veldwerk.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780300102949 (cl. : alk. paper)
0300102941 (cl. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2004001545

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)