Strange mythologies: cultural and linguistic opacity in Argonauts of the Western Pacific

• Main Author: Scott, Bede
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature; Cultural Difference; Anthropology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171317
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

During the years he spent conducting fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands, Bronislaw Malinowski became convinced that foreign cultures should be studied in their entirety, as fully integrated, “organic” structures. In what follows, I explore his attempt to achieve this objective, with regard to a spec...