Abstract

Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by all your gear, alone on a tropical beach close to a native village. (Malinowski 1984: 4) Malinowski’s picture in the “Argonauts of in Western Pacific” has had lasting effects on anthropologists’ imaginations for decades. “A tropical beach”: the archetypal field-site of the classical anthropologist, a place removed from the metropolitan world, remote in space and perhaps also in time; hence the denial of coevalness upon which classical colonial ...

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