Argonauts of the Western PacificAn Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea To my friend and teacher professor C. G. Seligman, F. R. S. Preface by Sir James G. Frazer My esteemed friend, Dr. B. Malinowski has asked me to write a preface to his book, and I willingly comply with his request, though I can hardly think that any words of mine will add to the value of the remarkable record of anthropological research which he has given us in this volume. My observations, such as they are, will deal partly with the writer’s method and partly with the matter of his book. [...]