В заключение - предлагаемый G.S. взгляд на "Аргонавтов ..." Б.М.:
"Considered in this light, Argonauts is itself a kind of euhemerist myth - divinizing, however, not its ostensible Trobriand heroes, but the European Jason who brings back the Golden Fleece of ethnographic knowledge ... Several years later, in writing on the role of 'Myth in Primitive Psy­chology,' Malinowski emphasized the intermingling of its pragmatic and legitimating functions: myth was at once 'a warrant, a charter, and often even a practical guide to the activities with which it is connected' ... Malinowski had spoken explicitly in his diary of 'the revolution' he wanted to 'effect in social anthropology' (1967:289), and it is hard to read <above-mentioned> essay, with its final spirited plea for an 'open-air anthropology' (1926a: 147), without feeling that he had sought more or less consciously in Argonauts to provide a mythic charter for its central ritual."
Говоря о влиянии Б.М. на следующие поколения полевых антропологов, G.S. добавляет: "the fieldwork style <Malinowski> validated was less a matter of concrete prescription than of placing one­self in a situation where one might have a certain type of experience ... As Malinowski (echoing Marett) had suggested ... the function of magic consisted in 'the bridging over of gaps and inadequacies in highly important activities not yet completely mastered by man' ... The gap between the specific methodological prescriptions of fieldwork and the vaguely defined goals of ethnographic knowledge had thus to be filled by what Malinowski himself had called 'the ethnographer's magic'".

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* В данном случае термин "этнография" используется в узком смысле и обозначает не отдельную дисциплину, но лишь сбор данных. Указывая на существование "variant versions of the charter myth in different national anthropological traditions", в данной работе G.S. ограничивается рассмотрением британской традиции (и кое-где - указанием на влияние американской).
** Смысловое ударение следует ставить на слово "ethnographic" - "no other early published work of the prewar cohort paid such explicit and extended attention to ethnographic (as opposed to interpretive) method ... <Their reports'> manifest level of methodological self-consciousness in one case lent itself to Marett's revealing prefatory comment: 'Touring, indeed, proves the ideal method of anthropological research'".

Stocking - "The Ethnographer's Magic: Fieldwork in British Anthropology from Tylor to Malinowski" (1983/1992)
эпиграф: Malinowski - "Coral Gardens and Their Magic" (1935/1965), volume i, introduction