Navigators of the Western Pacific (Complete Four Volumes) (English-Chinese Parallel)

Author: Bronis?aw Malinowski
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: In the development and evolution of Western academic thought, many influential classic works have emerged. These works have transcended time and space, enduring long-term study, and some have even shaped the course of human civilization. This series, "The Western Academic Classics Collection" (English-Chinese Bilingual Edition), selects some of the most representative works, with plans to reach one hundred volumes. It will be published in batches until fully completed. This volume is one of the most representative works. The distinctive academic activity of modern anthropology is writing an ethnography based on long-term fieldwork, completing a certain theoretical proof. Malinowski successfully combined these three elements, establishing the norms of scientific anthropology. This far-reaching academic norm is embodied in the academic practice of his seminal work, "Argonauts of the Western Pacific." "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" is a product of a very coupling point between the era in which Malinowski lived and his personal circumstances. It is the result of a group of indigenous people who were active near the equator in the western Pacific about a century ago, possessing a completely unique regional trading system known locally as "kula." The renowned scholar, Malinowski, who played a milestone role in the history of anthropology, unveiled the mystery of their lives in the book "Argonauts of the Western Pacific."