Argonauts of the western Pacific; an account of native enterprise and adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. With a pref. by Sir James George Frazer
Bronislaw Malinowski's 1922 ethnography of Kula exchange in the Trobriand Islands, published in London and New York for anthropologists and general readers, with a preface by James Frazer. Halftone field photographs show outrigger canoes being launched and loaded, men standing waist-deep in shallow water, thatched palm-leaf huts and village clearings, and crowds at shore ceremonies; useful for boat rigging silhouettes and coastal grain.
