Making Modern Social Science
The Global Imagination in East Central and Southeastern Europe after Versailles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7535154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine Lebow (0000-0003-2307-2659, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, corresponding author), 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) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-142 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0960777318000474 |
| OpenAlex | W2907688571 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 30 |
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
Adversary · Alien · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art history · Citizenship · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geopolitics · Insider · Political science · Portrait · Subject (documents · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History · Law
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Securing the World Economy
Climate in Motion
The Polish peasant in Europe and America
The Habsburg Empire
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe
Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences
Transnational History
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
The Intensive Study of a Restricted Area, Or, Why Did Malinowski Go to the Trobriand Islands
Shaping the Transnational Sphere
Blood and Homeland
Feeding the World
Governing the World
Placing the View from Nowhere
The End of Elsewhere
Big is a Thing of the Past
Locality in the History of Science
Toward a transnational history of the social sciences
The Global and Beyond
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |