The Trobriand Islanders' Ways of Speaking

by Gunter Senft

Bronislaw Maliniowski claimed in his monograph Argonauts of the Western Pacific that to approach the goal of ethnographic field-work, requires a "collection of ethnographic statements, characteristic narratives, typical utterances, items of folk-lore and magical formulae ... as a corpus inscriptionum, as documents of native mentality".

This book finally meets Malinowski's demand. Based on more than 40 months of field research the author...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110227983
• ISBN13: 9783110227987
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary