During the 1910s, anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski spent several years conducting fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands near Papua New Guinea. In the book he published about this research in 1922, Malinowski described his adjustment to living in a new place with a different climate, language, and community from what he was accustomed. As he elaborated, during this transition, “I had periods of despondency, when I buried myself in the reading of novels, as a man might take to drink in a fit of tropical depression and boredom” (4).
Question
Which concept below best matches what Malinowski is experiencing in this quotation?
(Choose one)
Group of answer choices
Culture shock
Reflexivity
Ethnological malaise Assimilation