In the documentary Off the Verandah we follow Bronislaw Malinowski and his contributions and innovations to anthropology.
When watching the movie I learned more about how innovative Malinowski was to anthropology and also how other cultures such as Trobriand people can value some objects that other cultures would find useless or plentiful. For instance, anthropologists before Malinowski would only reshuffle and reanalyze information that was already discovered. He practically created the methods that are still used today in modern anthropology, such as living with the culture you are trying to study, which was later named participant observation.
In the documentary it explained that Malinowski didn’t truly experience the cultures and people
When watching the movie I learned more about how innovative Malinowski was to anthropology and also how other cultures such as Trobriand people can value some objects that other cultures would find useless or plentiful. For instance, anthropologists before Malinowski would only reshuffle and reanalyze information that was already discovered. He practically created the methods that are still used today in modern anthropology, such as living with the culture you are trying to study, which was later named participant observation.
In the documentary it explained that Malinowski didn’t truly experience the cultures and people