Argonauts of the western pacific an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of melanesian new guinea is a 1922 ethnological work by bronislaw malinowski which has had enormous impact on the ethnographic genre the book is about the trobriand people who live on the small kiriwana island chain northeast of the island of new guinea it is part of malinowskis trilogy on the trobrianders including the sexual life of savages in north western melanesia and . Argonauts of the western pacific 1922 o crime and custom in savage society 1926 o sex and repression in savage society 1927 o the sexual lives of savages in nw melanesia an ethnographic account of courtship marriage and family life among the natives of the trobriand islands 1929 o coral gardens and their . Surprisingly there are more commonalities than differences in their sexual life compare with modern western sexual life another interesting part is that the group of people the author studied lived in a matriarchal society it can be seen that the roles of gender do not simply swap between men and women in a matriarchal society compared with a patriarchal society the book is not very . Savages argonauts of the western sexual life of savages argonauts of the western pacific truly offers what everybody wants the choices of the words dictions and how the author conveys the proclamation and lesson to the readers are categorically simple to understand so bearing in mind you mood bad you may not think thus difficult virtually this book you can enjoy and the pacific the sexual life