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Introduction: Argonauts Revisited
Chris Hann and Deborah James

Part I: Bronislaw Malinowski and his Argonauts in Context

Chapter 1. Cultural Capital and Economic Stringency: Reality and Myth in Bronisław Malinowski’s Socio-Economic Background
Grażyna Kubica

Chapter 2. Tenerife 1921: The Writing of Argonauts
Michael W. Young

Chapter 3. Malinowski’s New Paradigm
Adam Kuper

Chapter 4. Malinowski and the Politics of Economic Anthropology: Between Imperial Trusteeship and Colonial Trade
Freddy Foks

Part II: Economy, Economics, and Epistemics

Chapter 5. Compulsion to Work? Malinowski and the Labour Question
Rachel E. Smith

Chapter 6. On Tribal and Other Economies
Richard Staley

Chapter 7. Malinowski’s Place in the History of Economic Thought
Chris Gregory

Chapter 8. Can Economic Anthropology Escape from Primitive Economics? Thinking Ethnographically from the Oikos
Benoît de L’Estoile

Part III: Cosmology, History, and Social Organization

Chapter 9. Baloma: The Spirits of the Kula in the Trobriand Islands
Mark S. Mosko
*This chapter is available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Mark Mosko.

Chapter 10. The Archaeology of the Kula and Malinowski’s Notion of Economy
Hans Steinmüller

Chapter 11. Using Laozi to Interpret the Kula Ring: Rethinking the Dual Chieftainship in Kiriwina
Yongjia Liang

Part IV: Adaptations in Space and Time

Chapter 12. Passing On, Passing Around, and Passing Through: Urban Inheritance in South Africa as Circulation
Maxim Bolt

Chapter 13. The Anthropological Turn in the Sociology of Money
Ariel Wilkis

Chapter 14. The Digital Argonauts of the Western Pacific: From Kula Ring to Bush Internet
Geoffrey Hobbis and Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis

Afterword
Rebecca Empson

Index

One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

Edited by Chris Hann and Deborah James

Afterword by Rebecca Empson

362 pages, 3 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-521-8 Hb Published (June 2024)

eISBN 978-1-80539-522-5 eBook