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In the founding myth of ethnographic fieldwork, set by Bronislaw Malinowski in 1922 in “Argonauts of the Western Pacific,” the anthropologist arrives on a tropical beach as the boat that brought him sails away, plunging him into native life.
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The book “Argonauts of the Western Pacific,” published by Bronislaw Malinowski in 1922, sets the founding myth of ethnographic fieldwork where an anthropologist is left on a tropical beach to immerse himself in native life.
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{
    "book": "Argonauts of the Western Pacific",
    "year": "1922",
    "field": "ethnographic fieldwork",
    "author": "Bronislaw Malinowski"
}
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History Academia Anthropology
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September 24, 2026 at 10:12 PM (2 weeks ago)
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September 24, 2026 at 10:12 PM (2 weeks ago)

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