ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Trobriand Islands, Androcentrism, Main Source
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Cash can buy lots of things, but during these rituals, cash must be turned into something else to gain value: cash isn"t a stand-in for the trobriand women. How do you make sense of the fact that malinowski never wrote about this: a lot of practices have remained, but they have been modified. The ritual distribution ceremonies still take place: malinowski focused on kula exchange, everything he wrote about was related to men. Annette weiner"s fieldwork: the details related to death and all its attendant rituals are the center of. Annette weiner"s book: she went back very frequently until her death, she says that the trobriand islands are a part of the sacred geography of anthropology. She was keenly aware of entering this sacred space and always conscious about being in malinowski"s shadow: because she had read his work, she thought she knew all there was to know about the trobriand islands.
