Essay in French by Raphael Brudo Comparing Native and White Societies

Essay in French by Raphael Brudo Comparing Native and White Societies

in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (Yale), of Yale University. Sterling Memorial Library. Manuscripts and Archives (Papers relating to Malinowski's studies of the Trobriands Islands, Further material and correspondence) (New Haven, CT) (1934) , 11 page(s)

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An 11-page manuscript, typewritten in French with occasional hand-written notes, is an essay by pearl trader Raphael Brudo comparing native and white societies. Brudo, who considered himself an amateur ethnographer, may have written it for Princess Marie Bonaparte, a renowned psychoanalyst of the early 20th century and acquaintance of Malinowski's. Brudo notes the natives' ignorance of sexual biology and the role of men in pregnancy, and considers how that looks in white eyes. He praises Malinowski as having done the first - and final, definitive - work on Trobriand culture that no one could hope to match. And he then engages in a lengthy consideration of the differences between European and Trobriand culture; how Europeans must have appeared to the natives; the effect of one culture on the other, and the damage caused and danger posed by the Europeans; defends the Trobriand culture, particularly the sexual freedom for women, against the moral 'superiority' of the Europeans; and questions the right of Westerners to impose their values on the natives.
Field of Interest
Anthropology
Copyright Message
Materials sourced from Yale University. Copyright © 2016 by Patrick Burke
Content Type
Essay
Duration
0 sec
Anthropologist / Ethnographer
Raphael Brudo, fl. 1934
Warning: Contains explicit content
No
Format
Text
Page Count
11
Page Range
1-11
Subject
Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Cultural identity, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Trobriand Islanders
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural

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