Piotrek81 wrote: ↑February 29th, 2024, 1:07 pm
I was wondering if I could post here a chapter of a longer non-fiction book, namely one of the chapters of "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" by Bronisław Malinowski
https://archive.org/details/argonautsofthewe032976mbp The points which I want to get your opinion about are: the author's frequent use of references to graphic elements (e.g "see Plate X" "comp. Map V"). If you allow me to contribute it here, would you like me to keep those (which is my preferred idea) or skip them? Also, the text does, from time to time, mention the content of the further chapters (e.g "The further complication in the repayment of these solicitary gifts and a few more technicalities and technical expressions connected herewith will be given later on in Chapter IV.") Is this OK?
Hi Piotrek, A chapter from Malinowski's
Argonauts of the Western Pacific would be great for the Short Nonfiction Collection.
Apparently we don't have anything yet in the LibriVox catalog by Malinowski!
"Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (Polish: [brɔˈɲiswaf maliˈnɔfskʲi]; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronis%C5%82aw_Malinowski
It is ok to read the references to "graphic elements" and "further chapters." I think that mentioning the photographs might actually tempt the listener to look at the book on-line.
Would you please read from this edition of the text: https://archive.org/details/argonautsofweste00mali/page/4/mode/1up?view=theater. This is the first 1922 edition, which is from the New York Public Library and is clearly in the public domain. ( The edition you mention is from 1932, and was uploaded by Osmania University in India)
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An aside, I decided to look at Hathi Trust to see what they had by Malinowski, and came up with another Polish writer, a novelist, who isn't in the LibriVox catalog:
Eliza Orzeszko (1841-1910)
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/orzeszkowa-orzeszko-elizadeg
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17333878/
How I stumbled on Orzeszko is that she wrote a novel called
The Argonauts, translated into English in 1901!
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b597872&seq=9