Tales From The Jungle: Malinowski - Part 1 of 6

Very interesting video! I love reading the works of Malinowski in my Anthropology classes.

Yes, I agree it's a shame. Malinowski's professional work in the Trobriands showed his readers that people in so-called 'primitive societies' were exactly like people in the West insofar as they were complex and self-interested. In doing so he de-exoticized the other while showing that much of what we took for granted as 'natural' was socially constructed. The unfortunate diatribes in his diaries, never meant to be published, have to be understood as acts of catharsis during stressful fieldwork.

Above comment meant for inferno0020,

Thank you LadyPuddleton

You're welcome. I've done eight terms of fieldwork in places most people in North America or Europe would regard as 'exotic' and I know how stressful and frustrating this kind of work can be. Note that living in one place for some time is a completely different kind of experience to 'travelling'. Like most other anthropologists I know with this kind of experience I'm prepared to cut Malinowski a little slack for what he wrote in his diaries, viewing it as letting off steam.

Queer.

yo la verdad no se ingles

I love the BBC´s ability to make good documentaries. Thank you sharing this.

Malinowski me parece sin duda uno de los mejores etnografos de la historia, ya fuera por razones accidentales, (la antropologia acaso no es eso?) logro hacer un excelente trabajo de campo, pero claro, su diario nos dejo conocer las cosas que atraviesan al investigador, subjetividad que nos habia sido arrebatada por la ciencia en su afan objetivista, y que, gracias entre otros a él, estamos recuperando....alguien sabe si esta este documental en español? no entiendo muy bien....Gracias!

Thank you for this film.