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- catalog abstract "When it was first published (in 1967, posthumously), Bronislaw Malinowski's diary, covering the period of his fieldwork in 1914-15 and 1917-18 in New Guinea and the Trobriand Islands, set off a storm of controversy. Many anthropologists felt that the publication of the diary -- which Raymond Firth describes as "this revealing, egocentric, obsessional document"--Was a profound disservice to the memory of one of the giant figures in the history of anthropology. Almost certainly never intended to be published, Malinowski's diary was intensely personal and brutally honest. He kept it, he said, "as a means of self-analysis." Reviews ranged from "it is to the discredit of all concerned that the diary has now been committed to print" to "fascinating reading." Twenty years have passed, and Raymond Firth suggests that the book has moved over to a more central place in the literature of anthropological reflection. In 1967, Clifford Geertz felt that the "gross, tiresome" diary revealed Malinowski as "a crabbed, self-preoccupied, hypochondriacal narcissist, whose fellow-feeling for the people he lived with was limited in the extreme." But in 1988, Geertz referred to the diary as a "backstage masterpiece of anthropology, our The Double Helix." Similarly, in 1987, James Clifford called it "a crucial document for the history of anthropology." It is clearly time for a reissue of this controversial work, which has long been out of print. For this reissue, Raymond Firth, who wrote the original Introduction, has prepared a new Introduction that reviews the reception the diary originally received and describes how judgments about it have changed over the past twenty years. -- Back cover.".
- catalog contributor b2342472.
- catalog contributor b2342473.
- catalog contributor b2342474.
- catalog contributor b2342475.
- catalog contributor b2342476.
- catalog coverage "Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)".
- catalog created "1989, c1967.".
- catalog date "1989".
- catalog date "1989, c1967.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1989, c1967.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Preface / Valetta Malinowska -- Introduction / Raymond Firth -- Second Introduction 1988 / Raymond Firth -- A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term -- 1914-1915 -- 1917-1918 -- An Index of Native Terms / Mario Bick -- Facsimile page -- Eastern New Guinea and Adjacent Islands -- Mailu Island and Adjacent Coast of Papua -- The Kula District -- Trobriand Islands.".
- catalog description "When it was first published (in 1967, posthumously), Bronislaw Malinowski's diary, covering the period of his fieldwork in 1914-15 and 1917-18 in New Guinea and the Trobriand Islands, set off a storm of controversy. Many anthropologists felt that the publication of the diary -- which Raymond Firth describes as "this revealing, egocentric, obsessional document"--Was a profound disservice to the memory of one of the giant figures in the history of anthropology. Almost certainly never intended to be published, Malinowski's diary was intensely personal and brutally honest. He kept it, he said, "as a means of self-analysis." Reviews ranged from "it is to the discredit of all concerned that the diary has now been committed to print" to "fascinating reading." Twenty years have passed, and Raymond Firth suggests that the book has moved over to a more central place in the literature of anthropological reflection. In 1967, Clifford Geertz felt that the "gross, tiresome" diary revealed Malinowski as "a crabbed, self-preoccupied, hypochondriacal narcissist, whose fellow-feeling for the people he lived with was limited in the extreme." But in 1988, Geertz referred to the diary as a "backstage masterpiece of anthropology, our The Double Helix." Similarly, in 1987, James Clifford called it "a crucial document for the history of anthropology." It is clearly time for a reissue of this controversial work, which has long been out of print. For this reissue, Raymond Firth, who wrote the original Introduction, has prepared a new Introduction that reviews the reception the diary originally received and describes how judgments about it have changed over the past twenty years. -- Back cover.".
- catalog extent "xxxiv, 315 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0804717060".
- catalog identifier "0804717079 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1989".
- catalog issued "1989, c1967.".
- catalog language "eng pol".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Papua New Guinea".
- catalog spatial "Poland".
- catalog spatial "Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)".
- catalog subject "Anthropologists Diaries.".
- catalog subject "Anthropologists Papua New Guinea Biography.".
- catalog subject "Anthropologists Poland Diaries.".
- catalog subject "GN671.N5 M343 1989".
- catalog subject "Mailu (Papua New Guinean people) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "Mailu (Papua New Guinean people)".
- catalog subject "Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 Diaries.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface / Valetta Malinowska -- Introduction / Raymond Firth -- Second Introduction 1988 / Raymond Firth -- A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term -- 1914-1915 -- 1917-1918 -- An Index of Native Terms / Mario Bick -- Facsimile page -- Eastern New Guinea and Adjacent Islands -- Mailu Island and Adjacent Coast of Papua -- The Kula District -- Trobriand Islands.".
- catalog title "A diary in the strict sense of the term / by Bronislaw Malinowski ; with new introduction ; preface by Valetta Malinowska ; introduction by Raymond Firth ; translated by Norbert Guterman ; index of native terms by Mario Bick.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Diaries. fast".
- catalog type "text".