Abstract
The centennial of the Argonauts of the Western Pacific entails not only a necessary reference, but a thorough recovery of its contribution both to the ethnographic practice and the conceptual reflexion that Malinowski saga conveyed to Anthropology. Surely, a careful rereading of his findings in the Trobriand Islands is also necessary, regarding the contemporary reality, particularly when the research topics frame the contemporary great cities’ dynamics. This is the thread going through the present article, based on researches and experiments in the scope of Urban Anthropology, carried out by members of the Nucleus of Urban Anthropology Lab of the University of São Paulo (LabNAU/USP).
Keywords:
Argonauts of the Western Pacific; Bronislaw Malinowski; urban anthropology; LabNAU/USP