"El Kula"

I've always wanted to travel around the world and staying with natives on their own society, trying to know about every culture on this planet, explaining the things that surprised and their lifestyle, beside with acquiring more knowledge and compare them with my own. Before entering the university, I thought this method, the ethnography, was like the "standard" way to know about natives, probably because I've seen a lot of TV programs showing this as the "usual way". What I didn't know, is that the ethnography as we know it was developed by a single man called Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski (April 7th 1884 - May 16th 1942), who's also known for bringing back to life the cultural anthropology. 

What Malinowski did was to put an emphasis on field research, which is to take notes and draws on what surprise us on the physical field we are going to work, also as participant observation. On it, the ethnographer need to live between the subjects he is studying, needing to establish social relationship with em, letting himself go impressed for what's surrounding him: a new lifestyle, people out of the beliefs he had, etc. His most famous work, that's known on the entire planet -also, we read it on Anthropology class- it's called "Argonauts of the Western Pacific"

I think he is a genius, because he found one of the best ways to know about another society which we don't know, beside of that he developed one of the things that I would like to do before I die (the ethnography as participant observation). Also, his "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" it's a very entertaining text, in which you can easily get on the position he was just by reading it, MAKING IT GODDAMN MAGICAL!!!