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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (Polish: [brɔˈɲiswaf maliˈnɔfskʲi]; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology.
Bronisław Malinowski was one of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century who is widely recognized as a founder of social anthropology and principally associated with field studies of the peoples of Oceania.
May 4, 2023 · Bronislaw Malinowski was a ground-breaking anthropologist who is widely regarded as the Father of Field Research, due to his innovative use of participant observation and ethnography. His research challenged traditional assumptions about primitive societies and helped shape the development of modern anthropology.
May 4, 2023 · The Trobriand people live on an archipelago of islands on the south-eastern side of Papua New Guinea. In the early twentieth century they were the subject of an in-depth ethnographic study by Bronislaw Malinowski, who lived amongst them for several years.
Bronisław Malinowski, (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.
Jul 31, 2019 · Bronisław Malinowski (b. 1884–d. 1942) is arguably the most influential anthropologist of the 20th century, certainly for British social anthropology.
Jun 13, 2017 · The Department of Anthropology’s Katharine Fletcher looks back at its first occupant, pioneering social anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. Malinowski was born in Poland and spent much of the First World War conducting fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands, bringing the findings of his work to LSE in the 1920s.
