Malinowski, Bronisław (Kasper)
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born April 7, 1884, Kraków, Pol., Austria-Hungary
died May 16, 1942, New Haven, Conn., U.S.
Polish-British anthropologist.
He is principally associated with studies of the peoples of Oceania and with the school of thought known as
functionalism. After taking degrees in philosophy, physics, and mathematics in Poland, Malinowski happened upon James George Frazer's
The Golden Bough and went to study anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1910–16). Doing research in the Trobriand Islands, he lived in a tent among the people (see
Trobriander), spoke the vernacular fluently, recorded "texts" freely on the scene as well as in set interviews, and observed reactions with an acute clinical eye. He was thus able to present a dynamic picture of social institutions that clearly separated ideal norms from actual behaviour and in doing so laid much of the basis for modern anthropological field research. He taught at the London School of Economics (1922–38) and Yale University (1938–42). He wrote several works that are now considered classics of anthropology, including
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) and
Magic, Science and Religion (1948).
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Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski — noun British anthropologist (born in Poland) who introduced the technique of the participant observer (1884 1942) • Syn: ↑Malinowski, ↑Bronislaw Malinowski • Instance Hypernyms: ↑anthropologist … Useful english dictionary
Bronislaw Malinowski — Bronisław Malinowski Pour les articles homonymes, voir Malinowski. Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (1884 1942), Né à Cracovie en Pologne le 7 avril 1884. Anthropologue, ethnologue et sociologue polonais, il passe une grande partie de sa vie … Wikipédia en Français
Bronislaw Malinowski — noun British anthropologist (born in Poland) who introduced the technique of the participant observer (1884 1942) • Syn: ↑Malinowski, ↑Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski • Instance Hypernyms: ↑anthropologist … Useful english dictionary
Malinowski — noun British anthropologist (born in Poland) who introduced the technique of the participant observer (1884 1942) • Syn: ↑Bronislaw Malinowski, ↑Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski • Instance Hypernyms: ↑anthropologist … Useful english dictionary
Bronisław Malinowski — Bronisław Malinowski, um 1930 Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (* 7. April 1884 in Krakau; † 16. Mai 1942 in New Haven, USA) war ein polnischer Sozialanthropologe. Aus einer polnischen Adelsfamilie stammend, später in England lebend, gilt er heute als … Deutsch Wikipedia
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