 Ethnology is in the sadly ludicrous, not to say tragic position, that at the very moment when it begins to put its workshop in order, to forge its proper tools, to start ready for work on its appointed task, the material of its study melts away with hopeless...  Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific - Page 57edited by - 2005 - 227 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Clifford, George E. Marcus - Social Science - 1986 - 320 pages
...the sadly ludicrous, not to say tragic position, that at the very moment when it begins to put its workshop in order, to forge its proper tools, to start...material of its study melts away with hopeless rapidity" (1961 :xv). Authentic Trobriand society, he implied, was not long for this world. Writing in the 195os,... | |
 | Renato Rosaldo - Social Science - 1993 - 292 pages
...the sadly ludicrous, not to say tragic position, that at the very moment when it begins to put its workshop in order, to forge its proper tools, to start...the material of its study melts away with hopeless rapidity."18 Malinowski himself, of course, was articulating the doctrine of salvage ethnography —... | |
 | Steven Seidman - Philosophy - 1994 - 324 pages
...the sadly ludicrous, not to say tragic position, that at the very moment when it begins to put its workshop in order, to forge its proper tools, to start...material of its study melts away with hopeless rapidity" (1961:xv). Authentic Trobriand society, he implied, was not long for this world. Writing in the 1950s,... | |
 | Lucien Taylor - Social Science - 1994 - 504 pages
...sadly ludicrous, not to say tragic, posmon that at the very momem when it hegms to put its workshop m order, to forge its proper tools, to start ready for work on its appomted task, the material of its study melts away with hopeless rapidity. fust now, when the methods... | |
 | Peter Pels, Oscar Salemink - History - 2000 - 378 pages
...the sadly ludicrous, not to say tragic position, that at the very moment when it begins to put its workshop in order, to forge its proper tools, to start...material of its study melts away with hopeless rapidity" (cf. Levi-Srrauss 1973). 32. This aspect of my analysis is, of course, consistent with Fabian's (1983)... | |
 | Nico Israel - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 288 pages
...in the sadly ludicrous, not to say tragic position that at the very moment when it begins to put its workshop in order, to forge its proper tools, to start...material of its study melts away with hopeless rapidity. (Argonauts, xv) According to this extraordinarily candid statement (which itself mirrors Conrad's—or... | |
 | Steven Seidman, Jeffrey C. Alexander - Business & Economics - 2001 - 428 pages
...sav tragic position, that at the verv moment when it begins to put its workshop in order, to gorge its proper tools, to start ready for work on its appointed task, the material of its studv melts awav with hopeless rapiditv' (I961:xv). Authentic Trobriand societv, he implied, was not... | |
 | Marc Manganaro - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 243 pages
...the sadly ludicrous, not to say tragic, position, that at the very moment when it begins to put its workshop in order, to forge its proper tools, to start...material of its study melts away with hopeless rapidity" (xv) — recall Frazer's image of Malinowski as Cervantes, whose Don Quixote, in inimitable comic-tragic... | |
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