Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was an anthropologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research were a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology
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Quotes
[edit]- Ethnology or Anthropology, the science of Man, must not shun him in his innermost self, in his instinctive and emotional life.
- Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922)
- Yet I remember talking to an old cannibal who from missionary and administrator had heard news of the Great War raging then in Europe. What he was most curious to know was how we Europeans managed to eat such enormous quantities of human flesh, as the casualties of a battle seemed to imply. When I told him indignantly that Europeans do not eat their slain foes, he looked at me with real horror and asked me what sort of barbarians we were to kill without any real object. In such incidents as these the anthropologist learns to appreciate that Socratic wisdom can be best reached by sympathetic insight into the lives and viewpoints of others.
- Anthropology is the science of the sense of humour. An introduction to Julius Lips' The savage hits back, or the white man through native eyes (1937)
Quotes about Malinkowski
[edit]- Although hardly of central importance, the biographies of Boas and Malinowski may shed a little light on their unorthodox approaches to cultural variation. As indicated above, both men spent most of their adult life abroad; the German Boas in the USA, the Pole Malinowski in England. One may wonder if the uprootedness and alienation they must have felt, both in relation to their native countries and towards their adopted ones, could not have been a valuable resource when they set out to develop their new science.
- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, What is Anthropology? (2nd ed., 2017), Ch. 1 : Why Anthropology?
