Much has been written about the work of Bronislaw Malinowski but little is available about his personal life and thoughts. These letters were written by him and Elsie Masson from 1916 to her death in 1935. They chronoicle their meeting and subsequent extraordinary marriage in a highly accessible and revealing way, also telling the story of his remarkable, courageous and largely unknown wife and personalise Malinowski, not just as a teacher and scientist, but as a husband, father and friend. There is a tremendous variety in the correspondence. The Malinowskis lived in half a dozen countries...

Much has been written about the work of Bronislaw Malinowski but little is available about his personal life and thoughts. These letters, available for the first time, were written by him and Elsie Masson from 1916 to her death in 1935. They chronicle their meeting and subsequent extraordinary marriage in an accessible and revealing way, also telling the story of his remarkable, courageours and largely unknown wife. They personalize Malinowski, not just as a teacher and scientist, but as a husband, father and friend.

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the International Library of Psychology series is available upon request.

Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was one of the most important figures in the development of modern social anthropology. Among the British anthropologists repudiating so-called armchair research, Malinowski was a pioneer of fieldwork. He undertook his long-sustained fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and his accounts are populated by sympathetic figures, described in a deliberately vivid literary style. Malinowski is also recognized as the founder of Functionalism and his ethnographic studies contend that all components of society interlock to form a well-balanced system.
This collection...

A reissue of Malinowski's first field monograph, containing historical and theoretical material. This edition includes a major essay by Michael Young who draws on Malinowski's diary, unpublished notebooks and letters.

This volume discusses aspects of small scale societies, including the study of the mental processes, as well as indigenous economics and law.

This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands.

The first part of a two volume classic devoted to the agriculture and agricultural rites of the Trobriand Islanders. This work looks at the significance of agriculture in the Trobriand Islands.

Published posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture.