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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (Polish: [brɔˈɲiswaf maliˈnɔfskʲi]; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish [a] anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology.
Structural functionalism also took on Malinowski's argument that the basic building block of society is the nuclear family, [8] and that the clan is an outgrowth, not vice versa. It is simplistic to equate the perspective directly with political conservatism . [ 9 ]
A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays is a 1944 anthropological book by the Polish scholar Bronisław Malinowski. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] It was ...
More widely published contemporaneous works by Malinowski, The Family Among the Australian Aborigines (1913) and Wierzenia pierwotne i formy ustroju spolecznego [Primitive Beliefs and Forms of the Social System] (1915) are not included in this volume. Many of the included works listed above were previously only available in Polish or German ...
Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1884–1920 is a 2004 book about the early career of Polish-British anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, written by Michael W. Young and published by Yale University Press.
Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Malinowski is a 1957 book dedicated to the life and work of Polish anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, edited by Raymond Firth and published by Humanities Press International.
Malinowski's study of the Kula ring [20] became the subject of debate with the French anthropologist, Marcel Mauss, author of "The Gift" ("Essai sur le don", 1925). [5] Parry argued that Malinowski emphasized the exchange of goods between individuals , and their selfish motives for gifting: they expected a return of equal or greater value.
In essence, ethnoscience is a way of classifying cultural systems in a structured order to better understand the culture. The roots of ethnoscience can be traced back to influential anthropologists such as Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Benjamin Whorf who attempted to understand other cultures from an insider's perspective.