Rethinking the Trobriand Exchange by Marcos Lanna

“…The article 'discusses The Argonauts of the Western Pacific and its purpose is to reinterpret some of Malinowski's descriptions of the exchange process and Kula. …”
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El estilo de Malinowski en "Los argonautas del Pacífico Occidental" by Óscar Fernández Álvarez

“…Malinowski ventured in the Argonauts of the Western Pacific, what became his characteristic style: a journey through the life cycle of an institution, led by a confident, always-present narrator and ethnologist. …”
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Nienasyceni – 
o tym, co jedzą bohaterowie (dramatów) Witkacego by Kalina Bahneva

“…Culinary tastes that dominate in Witkacy's writings are being analysed on the bases of the critical approaches of Lévi Strauss and Barthes as well as Malinowski's important works on cultural anthropology (Argonauts of the Western Pacific, 1922; The Sexual Life of Savages in North­Western Melanesia, 1929). …”
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Making modern social science: The global imagination in East Central and Southeastern Europe after Versailles by Lebow, K, Mazurek, M, Wawrzyniak, J

“…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).1Argonauts’ 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…”

An anthropology of the sea voyage - Prolegomena to an epistemology of transoceanic travel by Arnd Schneider

“…The paper reviews Bronislaw Malinowski’s own travel linked to some explorations of archetypical sea voyages among the Trobriand Islanders (Argonauts of the Western Pacific, 1922). In a further step, the ‘shipboard notes’ of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques (1955) are used to consider what might have been gained if early and mid-20th century anthropologists had turned their ethnographic eye on ships, their crew and immigrants travelling on them. …”
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Antonio Gramsci: Towards an ethnographic Marxism by Kate Crehan

“…To clarify the nature of the ethnographic sensibility we find in the notebooks and the letters from prison, the article compares this sensibility to that of Bronisław Malinowski as laid down in the famous “Introduction” to Argonauts of the Western Pacific (termed by George Stocking, anthropology’s mythic charter). …”
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A antropologia britânica nas edições brasileiras by Júlio César Melatti

“…Incluí na bibliografia The Andaman Islanders, de Radcliffe-Brown, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, de Malinowski, Naven, de Bateson e Political Systems of Highland Burma, de Leach. …”
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