One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Chris Hann is Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Saale). His publications include Repatriating Polanyi: Market Society in the Visegrád States (Budapest 2019) and Work, Society, and the Ethical Self: Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era (New York/Oxford 2021).

“This book is remarkably interesting and useful in its composition; it takes us into completely new theoretical territory while tethering conversation back to the moment when Malinowski radically altered the aims of anthropological investigation.” • Huon Wardle, St. Andrews University“This book revisits old themes in innovative and creative ways, and provides new understandings of Malinowski’s contributions to anthropology generally and economic anthropology specifically. The co-editors should be applauded for bringing together a very impressive group of scholars, many of whom have published major works on the history and contributions of Malinowski.” • Peter D. Little, Emory University

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Argonauts RevisitedChris Hann and Deborah JamesPart I: Bronislaw Malinowski and his Argonauts in ContextChapter 1. Cultural Capital and Economic Stringency: Reality and Myth in Bronisław Malinowski’s Socio-Economic BackgroundGrażyna KubicaChapter 2. Tenerife 1921: The Writing of ArgonautsMichael W. YoungChapter 3. Malinowski’s New ParadigmAdam KuperChapter 4. Malinowski and the Politics of Economic Anthropology: Between Imperial Trusteeship and Colonial TradeFreddy FoksPart II: Economy, Economics, and EpistemicsChapter 5. Compulsion to Work? Malinowski and the Labour QuestionRachel E. SmithChapter 6. On Tribal and Other EconomiesRichard StaleyChapter 7. Malinowski’s Place in the History of Economic ThoughtChris GregoryChapter 8. Can Economic Anthropology Escape from Primitive Economics? Thinking Ethnographically from the OikosBenoît de L’EstoilePart III: Cosmology, History, and Social OrganizationChapter 9. Baloma: The Spirits of the Kula in the Trobriand IslandsMark 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 EconomyHans SteinmüllerChapter 11. Using Laozi to Interpret the Kula Ring: Rethinking the Dual Chieftainship in KiriwinaYongjia LiangPart IV: Adaptations in Space and TimeChapter 12. Passing On, Passing Around, and Passing Through: Urban Inheritance in South Africa as CirculationMaxim BoltChapter 13. The Anthropological Turn in the Sociology of MoneyAriel WilkisChapter 14. The Digital Argonauts of the Western Pacific: From Kula Ring to Bush InternetGeoffrey Hobbis and Stephanie Ketterer HobbisAfterwordRebecca EmpsonIndex