Michael W. Young, BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Visiting Fellow, Department of Anthropology
Email: michael.young@anu.edu.au
Biographical Statement
I have recently completed the first volume of Malinowski's biography, and hope to complete volume 2 within the next three years.
Research Interests
Anthropology of Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu; history of anthropology, biography of Malinowski.
Key Publications
- 2004. Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1884–1920. New Haven & London, Yale University Press.
- 2001. (with Julia Clark) An anthropologist in Papua : the photography of F. E. Williams, 1922-1939. Hindmarsh, S. Aust., Crawford House Publishing published in association with the National Archives of Australia.
- 1998. Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography, 1915-1918, Chicago University Press, Chicago.
- 1988. (ed.) Malinowski Among the Magi: the Natives of Mailu, Routledge, London; New York.
- 1983. Magicians of Manumanua: Living Myth in Kalauna, University of California Press, Berkeley.
- 1978. The Ethnography of Malinowski: The Trobriand Islands, 1915-18', Routledge, London and New York.
- 1971. Fighting with Food: Leadership, Values and Social Control in a Massim Society, Cambridge University Press.
Career Highlights
Nomination for the British Academy Book Prize (2005); Nomination as Malinowski's official biographer (1992); Election to FASSA (1986); shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2005) and the British Academy Book Prize (2005).
