Bronislaw Malinowski: Don’t Let The Cosplay Fool You
If there’s one picture that epitomizes White Guys Doing Research, it’s this one: The canonical author of the canonical book, naked black people, white guy in white clothes being…
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“I know of Malinowski’s despotism”: Mauss to Radcliffe-Brown
The people who fill our theory readers are real people who lived vibrant, quirky lives. It is easy to reduce them to a set of ideas or to…
Malinowski and Hats
The alternate title for this post was going to be “Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, and Boas walk into a bar…”. This is a little autobiographical passage from pages 46-48 of History,…
La science-fiction et l’anthropologie : des récits entrecroisés / 4
Par Martin Hébert Ce texte a d’abord été publié dans la revue Solaris (2013, no 183). Si l’on compare l’histoire des sciences sociales et celle des littératures de l’imaginaire, nous…
Malinowski’s Legacy: One Hundred Years of Anthropology in the Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
(Last week a major international conference was held in Alotau, the capital of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, where Bronislaw Malinowski did the research on kula that…
The Sexual Lives of Others
The sexual lives of others. It may seem a new and tantalizing topic for an ethnography, yet this particular genre has a long history in anthropology. In the…
Bronislaw Malinowski y el concepto de función
1. Función de la cultura La tesis central de Malinowski es que la cultura existe para satisfacer las necesidades biológicas, psicológicas y sociales del individuo. Grupo de hombres…