Lectures de Mauss

2010 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1303-1320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Ginzburg
Keyword(s):  
Franz Boas ◽  
Alexandre Kojeve ◽  
Claude Lefort ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

RésuméLe titre de l’essai a deux significations: il fait allusion, d’un côté, à des lectures qui ont joué un rôle important dans le travail de Marcel Mauss sur le don (notamment, Bronislaw Malinowski et Franz Boas); de l’autre, à quelques lectures importantes qui ont été données de l’Essai sur le don. Les deux niveaux sont liés: l’un clarifie l’autre. Plus spécifiquement, l’essai montre que la réflexion sur le lien impliqué par l’obligation de rendre le don (thème qui est au centre de l’essai de Mauss) a été déclenchée par une lecture très originale de certains passages de l’Émile de Rousseau. Il suit les traces, directes et indirectes, de ce noyau rousseauiste dans la postérité de l’essai de Mauss: de l’interprétation de Hegel donnée par Alexandre Kojève aux lectures divergentes de Mauss données par Claude Lévi-Strauss et Claude Lefort – fondées sur, respectivement, une image non conflictuelle et une image conflictuelle de la société.

Kontaktzonen und der Körper des Anthropologen. Zu den Tagebuchaufzeichnungen und Briefen von Franz Boas und Bronislaw Malinowski

Paragrana ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-119
Author(s):  
Mario Bührmann
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Mary Louise Pratt ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
Physical Resistance ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

AbstractThis paper explores how the concept of the 'contact zone′ (conceived by Mary Louise Pratt) can be extended by means of an issue which she does not mention: the physical shape and specific corporeal reactions of those acting in cultural encounters. By means of two case studies it will be questioned if and how ethnographers regard their body as an important constituent of 'contact zones′ generated by anthropological fieldwork ‒ and how concepts of performativity may serve to shed light on these particular interactions between the ethnographer′s body and its social environment. Therefore I will pay attention to the records in the diaries and letters of Franz Boas (1858–1942) und Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942), since both scholars are wedded with the methodological scheme of 'participant observation′, which specifically claims the physical presence of the ethnographer by means of long standing fieldwork. With a 'performative′ view to their 'fieldwork performances′ it becomes clear that they, certainly without using the term, even regard and utilize their skin as a 'contact zone′: through the corporeal surface and its physical resistance they detect the haptic, olfactory and gustatory qualities of social life. Moreover, a performative′ view to the concept of the 'contact zone′, particularly against the background of this ethnological context, exposes the problem of the seminal methodological scheme of 'participant observation′.

Philosophical Contributions to the Birth of Linguistics and Anthropology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael N. Forster
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Friedrich Schlegel ◽  
Wilhelm Von Humboldt ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski ◽  
Better Than

This chapter argues that Herder contributed the fundamental philosophical principles that enabled the birth of two major new academic disciplines that we today take for granted: linguistics and cultural anthropology. In linguistics his principles were especially taken over and developed by Friedrich Schlegel and Wilhelm von Humboldt. In anthropology they were especially taken over and developed by Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski, the founders of American and British anthropology, respectively. Moreover, as in some other areas (such as hermeneutics), his principles not only enabled the birth of these two new disciplines but were also in important respects even better than the versions of them that the disciplines went on to develop.

Prologue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didier Fassin
Keyword(s):  
Legal Anthropology ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

In his 1926 essay, “Primitive Crime and Its Punishment,” often considered the foundational text of legal anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski recounts an episode that occurred during his fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands and profoundly influenced his views on law and order in “savage society,” as he calls it....

Introduction to Ethnography

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Kwame Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Research Tradition ◽  
Primary Qualities ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski ◽  
Oriented Research

This introductory chapter introduces ethnography as a distinct research and writing tradition. The author begins by historically contextualizing ethnography’s professionalization within the fields of anthropology and sociology. While highlighting the formidable influences of, for example, Bronislaw Malinowski and the Chicago school, the author complicates existing understandings by bringing significant, but less-recognized, influences and contributions to light. The chapter next outlines three principal research methods that most ethnographers utilize—namely, participant-observation, fieldnote writing, and ethnographic interviewing. The discussion then shifts from method to methodology to explain the primary qualities that separate ethnography from other forms of participant-observation-oriented research. This includes introducing a research disposition called ethnographic comportment, which serves as a standard for gauging ethnography throughout the remainder of the book. The author presents ethnographic comportment as reflecting both ethnographers’ awarenesses of and their accountabilities to the research tradition in which they participate.

L’hypothèse de Firth

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Béatrice Godart-Wendling
Keyword(s):  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Philosophical Investigations ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Mode D’Action ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

Résumé Le but de cet article est d’évaluer l’hypothèse de John Rupert Firth (1890–1960) énonçant que l’article de l’anthropologue Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942), “The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages” (1923), constituerait une des sources d’inspiration ayant conduit Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) à élaborer une nouvelle conception de la signification en termes d’‘usage’. S’appuyant sur certains passages des Philosophical Investigations (1953), Firth établit ainsi une filiation entre les deux grandes idées phares de Malinowski, à savoir l’importance de la notion de ‘contexte de situation’ et l’idée que le langage serait un ‘mode d’action’ et les principales thèses (la signification comme usage, l’acquisition du langage, le langage comme un ensemble de jeux) que développera Wittgenstein. L’examen du bien fondé de cette hypothèse conduira à préciser la synergie des idées qui eut lieu en matière de pragmatique dans l’Angleterre de la première moitié du XXe siècle.

The Kula: A Bronislaw Malinowski Centennial Exhibition.

Man ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 786
Author(s):  
B. A. L. Cranstone ◽  
William A. Shack
Keyword(s):  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Centennial Exhibition ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

scholarly journals Bronislaw Malinowski: Polsk-engelsk antropolog

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jørgen Leth
Keyword(s):  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

Om Malinowski -- fra Jørgen Leth, Mine Helte. Det uperfekte menneske / 4 (2015, 27-34). Optrykt med venlig tilladelse fra forfatter Jørgen Leth og forlagsredaktør ved Gyldendal Johannes Riis

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