Tirubirīyānd'hā (Pazhuhish'hā-yi Mardum'shināsī-yi Mālīnufskī): Persian 1397

Bronislaw Malinowski is one of the founding fathers of modern social anthropology and the innovator of the technique of prolonged and intensive fieldwork. His writings about the Trobriand Islands of Papua were in their time the most formative influence on the work of British social anthropologists and are of perennial interest and importance. They produced a revolution in social anthropologists' aims and field techniques, and the method he created is now normally used by anthropologists in the field. Malinowski's field material remains compulsory reading for students. First published in 1979, this book draws from the major monographs of Malinowski to compile a selection of his writings on the Trobriand Islanders. In presenting a concise Trobriand ethnography in one volume, the author gives balanced coverage of economic life, kinship, marriage and land tenure, and to the system of ceremonial exchange known as the Kula. In an introductory essay, he also provides a critical assessment of Malinowski the ethnographer and gives a brief account of the Trobriands in a modern perspective.