Lansdown, Richard (2014) Crucible or centrifuge?: Bronislaw Malinowski's Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. Configurations, 22 (1). pp. 29-55.

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This article seeks to read Malinowski's A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term in literary-critical terms, broadly understood. As such, it supplements the psychological, epistemological, and 'cultural' readings already available from historians and theorists such as George W. Stocking, Clifford Geertz, James Clifford, and Christina Thompson. The article considers the diary as a genre but also a variety of moral imposition that extracts patterns from experience by virtue of its unique form. As examples, it considers the patterns in Malinowski's response to landscape and to the literature that he read during the Diary’s composition, and how these underpinned his epistemological, ethnographic thinking during the period.

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