Bronislaw Malinowski was a Polish-Austrian anthropologist who spent many years studying western Pacific islanders. It was he who convinced Indiana Jones to follow his dream and return to the USA in order to embark on his studies to become an archaeologist.
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| - Bronislaw Malinowski was a Polish-Austrian anthropologist who spent many years studying western Pacific islanders. It was he who convinced Indiana Jones to follow his dream and return to the USA in order to embark on his studies to become an archaeologist.
- Bronislaw Malinowski is considered the father of ethnographic methodology by most field working anthropologist because of his ideas on participant observation. However in current literature he is also referenced by social scientists for his contributions to anthropological theory. I believe that he is referenced more today by social scientists for his contributions on anthropological theory. The reason that I am asking this question to begin with is because I am an anthropology undergrad in my senior year and I am just now hearing about Malinowski the theorist. Early in my introductory classes and everything up until now I have only heard Malinowski discussed in terms of “Argonauts of the Western Pacific”, and that only paints him as the man who single-handedly started true ethnography thr
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| - Bronislaw Malinowski is considered the father of ethnographic methodology by most field working anthropologist because of his ideas on participant observation. However in current literature he is also referenced by social scientists for his contributions to anthropological theory. I believe that he is referenced more today by social scientists for his contributions on anthropological theory. The reason that I am asking this question to begin with is because I am an anthropology undergrad in my senior year and I am just now hearing about Malinowski the theorist. Early in my introductory classes and everything up until now I have only heard Malinowski discussed in terms of “Argonauts of the Western Pacific”, and that only paints him as the man who single-handedly started true ethnography through participant observation. [Contextualize this quote for your reader up front] “What is then this ethnographers magic…These, as said, consist mainly in cutting oneself off from the company of other white men, and remaining in as close contact with the natives as possible, which really can only be achieved by camping right in their villages.”(Malinowski, 1922) This was a quote taken from the introduction of Argonauts of the Western Pacific, which gives you some example of the revolutionary groundwork for ethnography that Malinowski was contributing. Now I am in an actual theory class and from day one I am hearing about Malinowski in a very different way. He is constantly referenced in our readings for his Functionalism theories. For example in Barnard's book History and Theory in Anthropology, in the section Functionalism and Structural-Functionalism, Malinowski's Functionalism theory is layed out in detail and recieved heavy criticism from my classmates.(Barnard, 2000) [page number please] Right away I understand why he is being criticized '''Criticisms of Malinowski's work include observations that he does not adequately account for culture change''' due to his lack of being able to explain change or conflict using this theory but sometimes the criticism he is receiving sounds like outright hatred. [I think this may be overstating the case a teey bit] page numbers page numbers Is Malinowski remembered more today for his brilliance in ethnographic methodology or for his failures as a cultural theorist?
- Bronislaw Malinowski was a Polish-Austrian anthropologist who spent many years studying western Pacific islanders. It was he who convinced Indiana Jones to follow his dream and return to the USA in order to embark on his studies to become an archaeologist.
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