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Citation

Vonnak D (2024) Should Have Known. In: Sereda O, Trencsebyi B, Zemiliakova T & Lancereau G (eds.) Invisible University for Ukraine. Essays on Democracy at War. Itahca and London: Cornell University Press, pp. 120-127. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501782879/invisible-university-for-ukraine/#bookTabs=1

Abstract
First paragraph: When the Polish anthropologist Bronis?aw Malinowski arrived in the Trobriand Islands in 1915, he was an Austro-Hungarian subject in a British territory at risk of internment. Stranded there, he stayed put and turned this long-term presence into the instrument that defines social anthropology even today. But World War I was not the only war that shaped his work in a profound manner: from archaeological work coming out recently we know that the kula, the intricate ceremonial exchange system he described as proof of the universality of rational human thought, was in fact a colonial phenomenon, the result of a decades-long pacification process.

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