One Hundred Years of Argonauts

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).

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Introduction: Argonauts Revisited

Chris Hann and Deborah James



Part I: Bronislaw Malinowski and his Argonauts in Context



Chapter 1. Cultural Capital and Economic Stringency: Reality and Myth in Bronisław Malinowski’s Socio-Economic Background

Grażyna Kubica



Chapter 2. Tenerife 1921: The Writing of Argonauts

Michael W. Young



Chapter 3. Malinowski’s New Paradigm

Adam Kuper



Chapter 4. Malinowski and the Politics of Economic Anthropology: Between Imperial Trusteeship and Colonial Trade

Freddy Foks



Part II: Economy, Economics, and Epistemics



Chapter 5. Compulsion to Work? Malinowski and the Labour Question

Rachel E. Smith



Chapter 6. On Tribal and Other Economies

Richard Staley



Chapter 7. Malinowski’s Place in the History of Economic Thought

Chris Gregory



Chapter 8. Can Economic Anthropology Escape from Primitive Economics? Thinking Ethnographically from the Oikos

Benoît de L’Estoile



Part III: Cosmology, History, and Social Organization



Chapter 9. Baloma: The Spirits of the Kula in the Trobriand Islands

Mark S. Mosko

*This chapter is available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Mark Mosko.



Chapter 10. The Archaeology of the Kula and Malinowski’s Notion of Economy

Hans Steinmüller



Chapter 11. Using Laozi to Interpret the Kula Ring: Rethinking the Dual Chieftainship in Kiriwina

Yongjia Liang



Part IV: Adaptations in Space and Time



Chapter 12. Passing On, Passing Around, and Passing Through: Urban Inheritance in South Africa as Circulation

Maxim Bolt



Chapter 13. The Anthropological Turn in the Sociology of Money

Ariel Wilkis



Chapter 14. The Digital Argonauts of the Western Pacific: From Kula Ring to Bush Internet

Geoffrey Hobbis and Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis



Afterword

Rebecca Empson



Index