Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918

by Michael W. Young

Kiriwina, the largest of the Trobriand Islands in eastern Papua New Guinea, is anthropology's "sacred place." It was here that Bronislaw Malinowski conducted the path-breaking fieldwork that enabled him to revolutionize British social anthropology. And it was here that he developed one of anthropology's most important tools: photography.

Malinowski's Kiriwina presents nearly two hundred of Malinowski's previously unpublished photographs,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226876500
• ISBN13: 9780226876504
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 9.7"