Bronislaw Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist born in 1884 in Krakow, Poland who is considered the founder of social anthropology. He pioneered participant observation fieldwork, living with and participating in the daily lives of the people he studied. Some of his most influential works include Argonauts of the Western Pacific and Coral Gardens and Their Magic. He originated the school of social anthropology known as functionalism, focusing on understanding the feelings and motives of people. Malinowski passed away in 1942 in New Haven, Connecticut.