For much of these second two trips, he based himself in the village of Omarakana on Kiriwina in the Trobriand Islands. He made two further trips to Papua from July 1915 to March 1916, and from November 1917 to October 1918. These were amongst the leading anthropologists and sociologists of the time.įrom September 1914 to March 1915, he conducted anthropological fieldwork in Territory of Papua, the southern half of what is now Papua New Guinea, including three months on the island of Mailu. He also corresponded with Alfred Cort Haddon and W. Malinowski (1884–1942) was born in Poland, and moved to London in 1910 to study at the London School of Economics under Charles Seligman and Edvard Westermarck. Learn more about True Echoes in a previous post. This is the smallest, and most recent, of the eight collections within the project, and one of three from Papua New Guinea. This collection is part of the True Echoes project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The collection came from the Museum of Mankind to the British Library’s National Sound Archive in 1985.Ībove: An example of one of the Malinowski cylinders The Bronislaw Malinowski 1915-1918 Trobriand Islands, Territory of Papua Cylinder Collection (C46) is a collection of five black wax cylinders (British Library shelfmarks C46/1397–C46/1401) recorded by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski between 19 during fieldwork in what is today Papua New Guinea.
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