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Bronisław Malinowski
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Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884–1942)
Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish-born anthropologist who spent much of his career in England and the USA, developing influential methods for studying cultures by living among the people he observed. His work fundamentally shaped how anthropologists conduct fieldwork and understand human societies, making him a central figure in modern anthropology.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bronisław
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Second Polish Republic
- Place of birth
- Kraków
- Place of death
- New Haven
- Father
- Lucjan Malinowski
- Occupation
- ethnologist
- Employer
- Yale University
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Student of
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Doctoral student
- Edmund Leach
- Field of work
- cultural anthropology
- Image
- Bronislawmalinowski.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bronisław Kasper Malinowski
- date of death
- 1942-01-01
- date of birth
- 1884-01-01
- student
- Meyer Fortes
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Bronisław Malinowski
- has works in the collection
- Wereldmuseum Rotterdam
- influenced by
- Émile Durkheim
- floruit
- 1920-01-01
- Commons Creator page
- Bronisław Kasper Malinowski
- start of work period
- 1915-01-01
- end of work period
- 1925-01-01
- interested in
- Melanesians
- significant person
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
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Encyclopedic overview
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski ( Polish: [brɔˈɲiswaf maliˈnɔfskʲi]; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology.
Malinowski was born and raised in what was part of the Austrian partition of Poland, Kraków. He graduated from King John III Sobieski 2nd High School. In the years 1902–1906 he studied at the philosophy department of the Jagiellonian University and received his doctorate there in 1908. In 1910, at the London School of Economics (LSE), he worked on exchange and economics, analysing Aboriginal Australia through ethnographic documents. In 1914, he travelled to Australia. He conducted research in the Trobriand Islands and other regions in New Guinea and Melanesia where he stayed for several years, studying indigenous cultures.
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