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Malinowski published “Argonauts of the Western Pacific” in London in 1922, with a preface by James George Frazer. It is based on his fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands in 1915–16 and 1917–18. The book describes the kula, a system of exchange in which necklaces of red shell travel clockwise and armbands of white shell anticlockwise around a ring of islands; partners give and receive them on long canoe voyages accompanied by magic, ceremony and ordinary trade. Malinowski showed that the valuables are not used but held for a time and passed on, conferring renown and binding partners over many years. The introduction, on the “subject, method and scope” of the inquiry, became a founding text of anthropological fieldwork; Mauss used the book in “The Gift”.

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• Project Gutenberg

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• जादू, विज्ञान और धर्म1925 · ब्रॉनिस्लाव मालिनोव्स्की
• चीन में किसान-जीवन: यांग्त्से घाटी के ग्रामीण जीवन का क्षेत्र-अध्ययन1939 · फ़ेई श्याओतोंग

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• 1925जादू, विज्ञान और धर्म