Historical Development Anthropology and Blog: Bronisław Malinowski

Everest Leo

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3 September 2021

 Bronisław Malinowski

     Bronisław Malinowski was a polish anthropologist who lived from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century and is regarded as one of the most important figures in anthropology and is called a founder of social anthropology. At the start of his career, Bronisław Malinowski, being a writer, reinterpreted Australian Aboriginal data that was in already popular texts at the time. After he published his first works, he started to gain traction in the anthropology community which led him to be able to travel to New Guinea and do field work. The monograph he wrote about his time there was the final piece that earned him a doctorate in his field. He continued to live with other civilizations and observe/experience different aspects about how they function which helped develop the science as a whole. Later in his career he became a professor and even further developed the study of anthropology by sponsoring studies and hosting thought provoking seminars with disciples of anthropology. He also started to become interested in many other civilizations as time went on such as Africa and he studied there as well. World War II was declared when Bronisław Malinowski was on leave in the US and, due to his age, he became Bishop Museum Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. His final studies were of Mexican-Indian communities and his second wife helped publish posthumous works. His early participation in anthropology and his continued interest in it throughout his life has definitely earned him his impressive titles.

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