1 / 75 Before and After Malinowski: Alternative Views on the History of Anthropology [A Virtual Round Table at the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 7 July 2022] Han F. Vermeulen Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale) Frederico Delgado Rosa CRIA / NOVA FCSH 2022 FULL REFERENCE Vermeulen, Han F. & Frederico Delgado Rosa (dir.). 2022. “Before and After Malinowski: Alternative Views on the History of Anthropology [A Virtual Round Table at the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 7 July 2022]” (avec la participation de Sophie Chevalier, Barbara Chambers Dawson, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Michael Kraus, Adam Kuper, Herbert S. Lewis, Andrew Lyons, David Mills, David Shankland, James Urry, et Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt), Bérose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l’anthropologie , Paris. BEROSE Publisher: ISSN 2648-2770 © UMR9022 Héritages (CY Cergy Paris Université, CNRS, Ministère de la culture)/DIRI, Direction générale des patrimoines et de l'architecture du Ministère de la culture. (All rights reserved). Your use of this article indicates your acceptance of the Bérose site (www.berose.fr) terms and conditions of use, available here. Visited on 17 March 2023 at 22:55 The present article is a special issue including fourteen short essays originally delivered at a virtual round table held on July 7, 2022, at the Royal Anthropological Institute ( RAI) [ 1], London, to celebrate the centennial of Bronisław Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922–2022) and the appearance of the edited volume Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork 1870-1922 (Rosa and Vermeulen, Berghahn Books, EASA Series, 2022). [ 2] Chaired by David Shankland and Thomas Hylland Eriksen, with Andrew Lyons as discussant, this two-part event highlighted the history of ethnography before Malinowski’s Argonauts, the genesis of British social anthropology in 1922, and its aftermath in Britain and beyond. The resulting papers discuss the three theses that opened the round table: (1) In the fifty years before the publication of Argonauts of the Western Pacific, a growing number of ethnographers produced hundreds of ethnographic monographs worldwide, but much of their work was sidetracked or neglected by Malinowski and his followers; (2) Malinowski is still celebrated as the inventor of intensive fieldwork in a single society, despite the fact that he had many predecessors in other societies and continents pursuing the same goal; and (3) the success of