By Bronislaw Malinowski
Many anthropologists felt that the book of the diary—which Raymond Firth describes as "this revealing, selfish, obsessional document"—was a profound disservice to the reminiscence of 1 of the enormous figures within the historical past of anthropology. most likely by no means meant to be released, Malinowski's diary used to be intensely own and brutally sincere. He stored it, he acknowledged, "as a way of self-analysis." reports ranged from "it is to the discredit of all involved that the diary has now been dedicated to print" to "fascinating reading."
Twenty years have handed, and Raymond Firth means that the ebook has moved over to a extra valuable position within the literature of anthropological mirrored image. In 1967, Clifford Geertz felt that the "gross, tiresome" diary published Malinowski as "a crabbed, self-preoccupied, hypochondriacal narcissist, whose fellow-feeling for the folk he lived with used to be constrained within the extreme." yet in 1988, Geertz talked about the diary as a "backstage masterpiece of anthropology, our The Double Helix." equally in 1987, James Clifford referred to as it "a an important record for the heritage of anthropology."
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