By Bronislaw Malinowski
While it was once first released (in 1967, posthumously), Bronislaw Malinowski's diary, masking the interval of his fieldwork in 1914-1915 and 1917-1918 in New Guinea and the Trobriand Islands, trigger a typhoon of controversy. Many anthropologists felt that the booklet of the diary―which Raymond Firth describes as "this revealing, selfish, obsessional document"―was a profound disservice to the reminiscence of 1 of the large figures within the heritage of anthropology. in all probability by no means meant to be released, Malinowski's diary used to be intensely own and brutally sincere. He saved it, he stated, "as a method of self-analysis." stories ranged from "it is to the discredit of all involved that the diary has now been devoted to print" to "fascinating reading." two decades have handed, and Raymond Firth means that the booklet has moved over to a extra significant position within the literature of anthropological mirrored image. In 1967, Clifford Geertz felt that the "gross, tiresome" diary published Malinowski as "a crabbed, self-preoccupied, hypochondriacal narcissist, whose fellow-feeling for the folk he lived with used to be restricted within the extreme." yet in 1988, Geertz observed the diary as a "backstage masterpiece of anthropology, our The Double Helix." equally in 1987, James Clifford known as it "a an important rfile for the heritage of anthropology."
Read or Download A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term PDF
Similar essays & correspondence books
Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother
In Eye of My center, twenty-seven clever, gutsy writers explode myths and stereotypes and inform the entire loopy, complex fact approximately being a grandmother in modern international. one of the members: Anne Roiphe learns—the difficult way—to preserve her mouth close and her reviews to herself. Elizabeth Berg marvels at witnessing her baby supply delivery to her baby.
Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts
This assortment brings jointly 13 new essays by way of the most revered modern students of Schopenhauer's aesthetics from a large spectrum of philosophical views. It examines the original idea Schopenhauer built to give an explanation for the lifestyles and paintings of the artist, and the effect his aesthetic philosophy has had on next inventive traditions in such varied components as tune, portray, poetry, literature, and structure.
Medical considering is a pragmatic advisor to inductive reasoning - this sort of reasoning that's wide-spread in medical task, no matter if such job is played by way of a scientist, a political pollster, or anybody people informally on a day by day foundation. The ebook presents finished assurance in twenty-three chapters divided into 3 components: "Induction, Proportions and Correlations," "Explanations," and "Cause.
About psychology : essays at the crossroads of history, theory, and philosophy
A severe and old review of psychology on the crossroads
Extra info for A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term
Sample text
At night I played cards with Lamb, the captain, and Mrs. McGrath. + Got chummy with Taplin and danced with Mrs. McGrath. This state of things persisted. There was a lovely green sea, but I could not see the full sweep of the [Great Barrier] • G. C. Seligman, the British anthropologist, Malinowski's mentor and author of The Melanesians of British New Guinea (1910). t W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist and physiologist, founder of the Cambridge school of experimental psychology. He administered psychological tests to the Melanesians, and developed a method of recording kinship data which became the most important method for collection of data in field work.
Pt. Moresby struck me as just the kind of place that you hear a lot about and expect a good deal of, but that turns out utterly different. From Mrs. Ashton's veranda, a view straight down a steep slope to the shore, which was covered with pebbles and meager, dried grass and was littered with refuse. The sea has cut out a deep circular bay with a narrow entrance. It lay there calm and blue, reflecting a sky that was at last clear. On the opposite side lay chains of hills, not too high, varied in shape, scorched by the sun.
I am still in love with her. I also keep remembering the later times after I came back from Cracow. I rarely think about the war; the lack of detail in the reports makes it easy to take the whole thing lightly. From time to time I take up the art of dancing, trying to instill the tango into Miss Ashton's mind and heart. Beautiful moonlit nights on the veranda at Mr. and Mrs. McGrath's-I am filled with dislike for these ordinary people who are incapable of finding a glimmer of poetry in certain things which fill me with exaltation.
