Description:
Malinowski's pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.
Brief description:
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).
Review Quotes:
"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