Robert Thornton / Peter Skalnik (eds.)

The Early Writings of Bronislaw Malinowski

Herausgeber: Skalnik, Peter; Thornton, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bronislaw Malinowski, born and educated in Poland, helped to establish British social anthropology. His classic monographs on the Trobriand Islanders were published between 1922 and 1935, when he was professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. This collection of Malinowski's early writings establishes the intellectual background to his achievement, and shows how his considerable impact on twentieth-century thought is rooted in the late nineteenth-century philosophy of central Europe, especially the work of Ernst Mach and Friedrich Nietzsche, and in the ethnological theories of James Frazer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780521026468
• ISBN-10: 0521026466
• Artikelnr.: 21684792

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on the text
Introduction: Malinowski's reading, writing, 1904-1914
Part I. Malinowski's writings, 1904-1914: 1. Observations on Friedrich Nietzche's The Birth of Tragedy (1904/5)
2. On the principle of the economy of thought (1906)
3. Religion and magic: The Golden Bough (1910)
4. Totemism and exogamy (1911-1913)
5. Tribal male associations in Australia (1912)
6. The economic aspects of the intichiuma ceremonies (1912)
7. The relation of primitive beliefs to the forms of social organization (1913)
8. A fundamental problem of religious sociology (1914)
9. Sociology of the family (1913-14)
Notes
References
Index.