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.

1. Bronislaw Malinowski
Asnate Rancāne
Conservatorio Superior de Castilla y Leon
Ethnomusicology
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Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski
Poland
Anthropologist
7/04/1884
Krakow, Poland
16/05/1942
New Haven, Connecticut
Founder of social anthropology
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6. Author of books:
The Family Among the Australian Aborigines (1913)
The Natives of Mailu (1915)
The Trobriand Islands (1915)
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922)
The Scientific Theory of Culture (1922)
Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)
Crime and Custom in Savage Society (1926)
The Father in Primitive Psychology (1927)
Sex and Repression in Savage Society (1927)
The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929)
Coral Gardens and Their Magic (1935)
The Foundations of Faith and Morals (1936)
A Scientific Theory of Culture (1944)
Freedom and Civilization (1944)
The Dynamics of Culture Change (1945)
Magic, Science, and Religion and Other Essays (1948)
A Diary In the Strict Sense of the Term (1967)
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7. Living with the
people he studied
getting to know
them personally
participating in
their activities
conducting his
research in the
vernacular
participant
observation
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8. Malinowski originated the school
of social anthropology known
as functionalism.
feelings of people and their motives
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9. His students:
Raymond Firth
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Audrey Richards
Edmund Leach
Ashley Montagu
Meyer Fortes
Isaac Schapera
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