Friday, July 8, 2016

Bronislaw Malinowsky

Bronislaw Malinowsky is an anthropologist and etnographer who has been constantly outstanding as one of the most importants of his area. Its contributions to the anthropology consist on the approach of the cultures accounts to the academic study of them. He stressed the importance of the direct contact between the investigator or student and the culture that is being studying.

It is known, by his own personal dairy and the way he wrote his books, that Malinowsky didn't make his expeditions on his will. He was there because the Austro-hungarian empire banished him to the trobian islands, giving to him the opportunity to return with the condition of developing some investigation, so he was obliged to do a work that turned off more stressful than inspiring. Based on this, I think that all the enunciation of his ideas were forced by a particular context (First world war) which must had conditioned the results of them.

2 comments:

  1. Malinowsky is parent of Marcel Mauss? once I heard this.

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  2. In my first year I read some chapters of "Los argonautas del pacífico occidental".

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