Story of a Marriage - Vol 1
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academic biography
anthropological correspondence
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Chopin
early twentieth century society
Eleventh Hour
Elsie's Mother
Elsie’s Mother
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ethnographic research history
Farewell Gathering
fieldwork methodology
Fine Days
Firemen
Green Walls
Grey Street
Hobble De Hoy
intercultural relationships
LA TERRE
Masson Parents
Melbourne Hospital
Mount Buffalo
Nurse's Certificate
Nurse’s Certificate
personal letters of Bronislaw Malinowski
Polish Grammar
Port Moresby
Registrar General's Office
Registrar General’s Office
Retrospective Diary
Spruce Sapling
Trades Hall
Tu Ne
War Time
Worcester Sauce
Yarra Bank
Younger Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415120760
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Feb 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Much has been written about the work of Bronislaw Malinowski but little is available about his personal life and thoughts. These letters, available for the first time, were written by him and Elsie Masson from 1916 to her death in 1935. They chronoicle their meeting and subsequent extraordinary marriage in a highly accessible and revealing way, also telling the story of his remarkable, courageous and largely unknown wife and personalise Malinowski, not just as a teacher and scientist, but as a husband, father and friend. There is a tremendous variety in the correspondence. The Malinowskis lived in half a dozen countries and visited many more and their gypsy lifestyle, his brilliant successes in his professional life, the tragedy of her illness, as well as their continuing love story are all recorded. The letters bring in luminaries such as Sir James Frazer, and Malinowski's students, many of whom went on to become famous anthropologists themselves. There are also fascinating glimpses of attitudes and day-to-day life in the twenties and thirties, including the rise of Nazism and Fascism. Volume I presents the letters written between 1916 and the beginning of 1920 in Australia and New Guinea. They start with a retrospective diary letter from Elsie Masson to Bronislaw Malinowski and detail their first meeting and eventual falling in love. Malinowski describes his third, and final, time of fieldwork in New Guinea, in the Trobriand Islands, 1917-1918. He then returns to Australia where, despite opposition from Elsie's parents, they marry and then spend a year there. At this time they both succumb to the Spanish 'flu epidemic but, having recovered, then move to England.
