 | Rosalie Wax - Social Science - 1971 - 412 pages
...because for twenty years no social researcher except the Webbs cared or dared to follow his example. Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by all...dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight. Since you take up your abode in the compound of some neighbouring white man, trader or missionary,... | |
 | George W. Stocking - Social Science - 1984 - 248 pages
...(1922:35). More important still, perhaps, is a device one might call the "author/reader equation": "Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by...tropical beach close to a native village while the launch . . . which has brought you sails away out of sight ..." (4). Introduced to Malinowski's opening methodological... | |
 | James Clifford, George E. Marcus - Social Science - 1986 - 320 pages
...Ethnographer's tribulations" opens with the now famous line: "Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by your gear, alone on a tropical beach close to a native...dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight" (Malinowski 1961 ,.4). This is unmistakably the image of an old-fashioned castaway. That it turns up... | |
 | George W. Stocking - Anthropology - 1992 - 452 pages
...(1922b:35). More important still, perhaps, is a device one might call the "author/reader equation": "Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by...tropical beach close to a native village while the launch . . . which has brought you sails away out of sight . . ." (4). Introduced to Malinowski's opening... | |
 | Daniel Nugent - History - 1993 - 244 pages
...Cartuchos Quemados: Ethnography and Social Analysis APPROACHING THE FIELD Is it any longer possible to "imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by...dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight" (Malinowski 1922:4)? I like to think my imagination is fairly fertile, but the images flashing through... | |
 | Diane Bell, Patricia Caplan, Wazir-Jahan Begum Karim - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 284 pages
...on Tubetube Island, Papua New Guinea Martha Macintyre FICTIVE KINSHIP OR MISTAKEN IDENTITY? Arrival Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by all...dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight. (Malinowski 1922:4) As one of those who has actually followed in Malinowski's footsteps by choosing... | |
 | Calvin Morrill - Art - 1995 - 364 pages
...works. 2. Of course, this scene is far from a typically imagined setting in which the ethnographer is "suddenly set down surrounded by all your gear, alone...dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight," as Malinowski (1922:4) so ably captured. Even though I had grown up in the business "culture" and was... | |
 | Bill Maurer - History - 2000 - 324 pages
...contemporary anthropology, it is big business and good marketing strategy in the tourist industry. "Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by...dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight . . ." (Malinowski 1922:4). My sister came to visit me during my fieldwork with the attitude of the... | |
 | Desley Deacon - Social Science - 2008 - 539 pages
...York "Imagine yourself suddenly set down," wrote Malinowski of his arrival in the Trobiands in 1914, "surrounded by all your gear, alone on a tropical...dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight." Parsons could not manage to banish the world she was brought up in quite so splendidly as Malinowski... | |
 | Meenakshi Thapan - Social Science - 1998 - 348 pages
...of other lands by an imaginative incorporation of the reader into the voyage of the anthropologist. Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by all...dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight... (1922). Thornton (1985) has compared these very words with those of Conrad as he describes the march... | |
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Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by all your gear, alone on a tropical' beach close to a native village, while the launch or dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight. 
