Article ID: CBB001450145

Crucible or Centrifuge? Bronislaw Malinowski's A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term (2014)

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This essay seeks to read Bronislaw Malinowski's A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term in literary critical terms, broadly understood. As such, it supplements the psychological, epistemological, and cultural readings already available from historians and theorists like George W. Stocking, Clifford Geertz, James Clifford, and Christina Thompson. The essay considers the diary as a genre, but also as a variety of moral imposition that extracts patterns from experience by virtue of its unique form. As examples, it considers the patterns in Malinowski's response to landscape and to the literature he read during the Diary's composition, and how these underpinned his epistemological, ethnographic thinking during the period.

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Authors & Contributors
Kristina Lyons
Beth Singler
Brian Hochman
Wood, Susan Marie
Iorio, Silvia
Albert, Dan
Concepts
Anthropology
Ethnography
Science and race
Medicine
Cultural anthropology
African Americans and science
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
Places
Italy
France
Great Britain
Colombia
United States
Switzerland
Institutions
Science Museum, London
University of California
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