Making Modern Social Science

The Global Imagination in East Central and Southeastern Europe after Versailles

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ID7535154
AutoresKatherine Lebow (0000-0003-2307-2659, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, autor correspondente), Małgorzata Mazurek (0000-0002-9139-2462, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies), Joanna Wawrzyniak (0000-0001-9836-5638, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)
Ano2019
Volume28
Fascículo2
Páginas137-142
Data de publicação2019-01-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoContemporary European History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0960777318000474
OpenAlexW2907688571
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas30

The events of 1914 initiated the redrawing of many boundaries, both geopolitical and intellectual. At the outbreak of the war the London-based anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski was at a professional meeting in Australia. Technically an ‘enemy alien’ (a Pole of Austro-Hungarian citizenship), he was barred from returning to Britain; stranded in Australia, under surveillance by authorities and with insecure finances, Malinowski began fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands that would result in his groundbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922). 1 Argonauts ’ influence rested on its compelling portrait of the anthropologist as ‘participant-observer’, the insider/outsider uniquely poised to decode and recode cultures and meanings. 2 Malinowski thus adeptly retooled his own ambiguous status into a paradigm of the ethnographer’s optimal subject-position – quipping that he himself was particularly suited to this role, as ‘the Slavonic nature is more plastic and more naturally savage than that of Western Europeans’. 3

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