These two readings give us background on African Americans in Southern Africa. The first reading by Bornislaw Malinowski, Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a very interested introduction to Anthropology. Malinowski walks us through what he goes through as an ethnographer. He begins introducing the trade routes of Eastern New Guinea in which he sets out to describe the trading system known as the Kula. He lived there temporarily to observe the conditions of the Natives and collect relative information. He mentioned that he visited and stood in a Native town on the south coast of New Guinea with a partner in whom things did not go so well. When he returned by his self assuming that it would be better, the Natives soon learn to adapt him into their lives. He began to study their living habits and their religion. When he first started to live there, he was foreign to the Natives and realized that he couldn't understand them and felt uncomfortable. To ease that feeling, he drew up plans and started to collect information about kinship, their connection by blood, marriage, or adoption. He doesn't take any short-cuts in learning but yet took the long path in doing it so. Once he has adapted to their culture and
These two readings give us background on African Americans in Southern Africa. The first reading by Bornislaw Malinowski, Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a very interested introduction to Anthropology. Malinowski walks us through what he goes through as an ethnographer. He begins introducing the trade routes of Eastern New Guinea in which he sets out to describe the trading system known as the Kula. He lived there temporarily to observe the conditions of the Natives and collect relative information. He mentioned that he visited and stood in a Native town on the south coast of New Guinea with a partner in whom things did not go so well. When he returned by his self assuming that it would be better, the Natives soon learn to adapt him into their lives. He began to study their living habits and their religion. When he first started to live there, he was foreign to the Natives and realized that he couldn't understand them and felt uncomfortable. To ease that feeling, he drew up plans and started to collect information about kinship, their connection by blood, marriage, or adoption. He doesn't take any short-cuts in learning but yet took the long path in doing it so. Once he has adapted to their culture and