Between science and life – Malinowski’s and Hastrup’s fieldwork experiences

Authors

  • Marta Kolankiewicz

Abstract

The subject of this article is the personal experience of anthropologists during fieldwork carried out in another culture. It is presented through two cases: the first is Bronisław Malinowski’s journey to Mailu and the Trobriand Islands and the second Kirsten Hastrup’s experience in Iceland. My basic material is Malinowski’s Diary in the strict sense of the term (I used the whole text published in Polish in 2001). I have used the text to analyze his experience of interacting with people from another culture, as well as to show how Diary influenced contemporary anthropology. This I have done by comparing Malinowski’s and Hastrup’s experiences from their fieldwork. I have tried to present their ‘being there’ not only as a cultural phenomenon, changing in phase with discourses of the time, but also as the part of work which highlights crucial epistemological and ethical dilemmas of anthropology.
Capa do n.º 9 da revista Antropológicas

Downloads

Issue

No. 9 (2005)

Section

Feature articles

License

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal comply to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the magazine right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license that allows the sharing of work and recognition of authorship and first publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are authorized to take additional contracts separately for non-exclusive distribution of the work published in this journal version (ex.: publish in an institutional repository or as a chapter of a book), with recognition of authorship and first publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their personal page) at any point before or during the editorial process, as it can generate fruitful changes, as well as increase the impact and citation of the published work (see The effect of open access). [link to http: opcit.eprints.orgoacitation-biblio.html]