ANTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Premarital Sex, Coconut Oil, Kilivila Language
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Place: trobriand islands of papua new guinea. Bronislaw kasper malinowski first researched these islands. He planned to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in australia and the mainland of papua new guinea. While in australia wwi broke out, and being of polish origin needed to seek refuge. This is when he travelled to trobriand islands and stayed for two years. Malinowski - argued against conceptions of primitive societies made by armchair anthropologists. Argonauts of the western pacific - importance of ethnographic fieldwork for a year or more. Research done before was short-termed - focus on surveys, before the culture changed. Although, the research was 60 years apart, it was similar historical development. Weiner - focused on women"s productive work distributed their own wealth (bundles of banana leaves and banana fiber skirts) that they exchanged with other women after a death. Malinowski - noted the high status of trobriand women in the matrilineal society.
