Bronislaw Malinowski (1 jan 1884 ano – 1 jan 1942 ano)

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About:
-born into Polish nobility
-PhD in philosophy at Jagiellonian University, followed by the London School of Economics
-trained by Frazer, decided to do the opposite
-multiple-year ethnographic research in New Guinea, the Trobriand Islands, SW USA among the Hopi, and Oaxaca, Mexico

Major points:
-"the achievement of a sociological synthesis of all the various, relevant symptoms, is the task of the ethnographer"
-coined functionalism!
→ all about meeting basic human needs
-invented participant observation, along with most other ethnographic methods
-salvage anthropology
-"village as an organism" model
→ skeleton
→ flesh and blood
→ spirit

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