biography
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Malinowski, Bronislaw (Kasper)
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pronunciation:
[malinofskee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1884–1942)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in Kraków, S Poland. He studied at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, and at Leipzig, went to London in 1910, and taught at the London School of Economics, where he became a professor (1927). In 1938 he went to the USA, where he accepted a post at Yale. His most famous work is Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) in which he pioneered ‘participant observation’ as a method of fieldwork (notably in the Trobriand Is). He was a major proponent of functionalism in anthropology. |
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