Malinowski's Kiriwina

This text presents nearly 200 of Bronislaw Malinowski's photographs, taken between 1915 and 1918, of the Trobriand Islanders. Michael Young, an anthropologist and Malinowski's authorized biographer, has selected the photographs based on one of Malinowski's studies of the region, and the plan of that abandoned project has helped structure this book. Divided into 14 sections, the text is a series of linked photo-essays based on Trobriand institutions and cultural themes as described by Malinowski. The introductory essay appraises the anthropologist's photographic oeuvre, explains the historical circumstances and technical aspects of the images, and puts them in their colonial context. Young illuminates the photographs with quotations from Malinowski's diaries, letters, and field notes, thereby giving a biographical dimension to the collection. Commentaries on the images by contemporary Trobrianders add a further layer of interpretation. The result is a record not only of a fascinating place, but of the mutual relationship between ethnography and the visual.

ISBN 0226876500   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780226876504 (What's this?)   Pages 314 Publisher The University of Chicago Press   Volumes 1 Imprint University of Chicago Press   Weight (grammes) 1140 Format Hardback   Published in Chicago, IL Publication date 05 Feb 1999   Height (mm) 245 Photographer Malinowski, Bronislaw   Width (mm) 225 Library of Congress 98023064   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY 778.99305899112   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		List of Maps
		Acknowledgments
		Introduction		1
		A Note on Orthography		29
		"Trobriand Islands" by Bronislaw Malinowski		31
1		Samarai, "Gate to the Field"		37
2		Picturing the Ethnographer		47
3		Touluwa, Chief of Omarakana		59
4		Coral Gardens and Their Harvests		71
5		Dancing at Milamala		89
6		"Physical Types" and "Personalities"		101
7		"Magic"		119
8		Fishing and Canoes of the Lagoon		131
9		"Village Scenes"		149
10		Women's Domain		163
11		"The Children's Republic"		189
12		Mortuary Rites and Exchanges		211
13		Masawa Canoes and the Kula Quest		227
14		"Black and White"		263
App. 1		Malinowski's Photographic Equipment		275
App. 2		The Numbering of the Collection		277
		Glossary		283
		Notes		287
		Index		303

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