The Story of a Marriage: The letters of Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson. Vol II 1920-35

by Helena Wayne (Editor)

Overview

While much has been written about the work of Malinowski, little has been written his personal life. These letters, available for the first time offer an insight of the man not just as teacher and scientist but as a husband, father and friend.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415117593
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/09/1995
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1300L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Helena Wayne was born in the South Tirol, northern Italy, the youngest of the three daughters of Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson. She has researched at length in her father's papers and has interviewed relations, friends and former students, building up a unique body of knowledge about her parents. She has been a reporter for Life magazine, book editor, and television producer for the BBC. Bronislaw Malinowski is known internationally as one of the founders of social anthropology, as the creator of modern fieldwork, as a great writer and an inspiring teacher.

Table of Contents

List of illustration, The editor’s foreword and an introduction to both volumes appear in Volume I, Chronology, Part I 1920±25, Part II 1926±29, Part III 1930±35, Postscript, Notes, Index