Malinowski and the Alps - anthropological and historical perspectives / / Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy Louise Zinn, editors.

• TeilnehmendeR: Tauber, Elisabeth,; Zinn, Dorothy Louise,
• Place / Publishing House: Bozen : : Bu,Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 155 pages)

Tucked away in the Italian Alps, in the town of Oberbozen-Soprabolzano lies the villa that the family of Bronislaw Malinowski and his first wife, Elsie Masson, called home from 1922 to 1935. Yet Malinowski himself never wrote about South Tyrol or the Alps in general. This volume features a series of essays that explicitly ponder Malinowski's intriguing influence on Alpine anthropology: Despite not having worked directly in or on the Alps, he nonetheless left anthropological traces through the works of others. The Malinowski Forum for Ethnography (MFEA) aims to uncover the ineffable presence in Alpine anthropology of Malinowski, a founder of modern social anthropology.

Table of Contents

Prologue - The Malinowskis in the South Tyrol Patrick Burke and Lucy Ulrich -- Malinowski and the Alps: An Elusive Historical-Ethnographic Footprint Introduction Elisabeth Tauber and Dorothy Zinn -- Malinowski and the Anthropological Study of the Alps: Really a Missed Encounter? Pier Paolo Viazzo -- Anthropology and History in the Alps. Intricate Chronologies and References Margareth Lanzinger -- On the Tracks of the Malinowskis in Oberbozen and Bozen Daniela Salvucci -- Lucie Varga and Her Alpine Studies Peter Schöttler -- In a Valley in Vorarlberg: From the Day before Yesterday to Today Lucie Varga -- Yesterday's Witchcraft: An Enquiry Into a Ladin Valley Lucie Varga -- Malinowski and the Alps - Afterword Antonino Colajanni -- Authors.