Bronisław Malinowski

1) The Austronesian languages are spoken throughout Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. I believe the language started to spread in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia and the Philippians and made its way to Madagascar. Because most of these countries are islands the language would have distributed by traveling, trading, and immigrating 2) Participant observation has both its pros and cons. One of the strengths of this approach is that the researcher who does the…

(Fieldwork 1). From 1915 to 1918, Bronislaw Malinowski voyaged to the Trobriand Islands and conducted almost two years of ethnographic fieldwork (McGee and Warms, 2008, 160). There he discovered the Kula, a trading system of jewelry among various tribes throughout a circle of island cultures, known as the Kula ring (Malinowski, 1961, 1). Malinowski’s article not only discusses the Kula, but also examines the ethnographic framework for studying cultures through fieldwork. Malinowski analyzes how…

This source outlined the Bronislaw Malinowski’s entire history and career. Malinowski, second to Radcliffe-Brown, was the most influential British social anthropologist. Initially, he was set out to New Guinea to do fieldwork, however, he was stopped at the Trobriand Islands when World War I broke out. This unfortunate turn of events was beneficial to Malinowski because he lived among the Trobriand Islanders for several years. While on the island, Malinowski analyzed the Kula Ring, which was…

to provide social control on religion and their morals away from their norms to main order. Lastly, religion is to offer purpose and meaning for questions that even maybe science can not even answer, questions about life, etc.Anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, who was one of the most influential of the 20th century, stated that, “religious ritual increases under conditions of uncertainty”, this shows that when our faith and belief diseases, many of us turn to religion as a solid ground to…

Religion occurs where ever societies exist, from the Sumerians and the Ancient Egyptians right through to modern society religion is everywhere. This essay will look at religion from a sociological perspective and try to answer whether or not Britain is becoming a more secular society. When it comes to religion sociologists, unlike theologists and philosophers, are not as interested in the details of religions themselves, but in what effects religion has on its particular society. The…

A common definition of religion is a set of beliefs that is held by a group of people. A primary definition of religious which is available in standard dictionaries reads something like “of, concerned with, or teaching religion,” and this is what people normally mean when they say things like “Christianity is a religious belief system”. The terms religion and religious clearly originate from a similar root and one would think that it means the same, one as a thing and other as a descriptive word…

Influence: A. Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) a. Polish-British anthropologist, educated in Krakow under Wilhelm Wundt at the London School of Economics i. He established the ideal standards of anthropological fieldwork , demanding consistent, thorough, genuine engagement through “participant observation” b. He founded modern British anthropology…

There have been many anthropologists, like Bronisław Kasper Malinowski and Annette-Barbara Weiner, whose studies were based on the Trobriand Islanders men, women, and their daily/death traditions. By the late twentieth-century, the only populated information we had of the Trobriand Islanders were from those anthropologists. However, that changed when Katherine Lepani published her book, Islands of Love, Islands of Risk: Culture and HIV in the Trobriands. In her book, Katherine Lepani, critically…

Functionalism is the first macro perspective that as developed as a systematic method of analysis by Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown. A principle approach was any social pattern or institute that does not serve a function will cease to exist and any pattern found among people is believed to have innate human needs. (Westphal & Levenson, 1993, pp.44) Malinowski believed that all human needs were satisfied by a way that does not cause social chaos, such as sex drive, hunger, and the…

Sociologist have a crucial role in the field of anthropology. Sociologist analyze the functions of human society and how they influence members of that society. People are influence by their surroundings, norms, culture, and interaction. It would be very difficult to fully understand humans without the contribution of sociologist. The reading of this week begin with “Foundations of Sociological Thought” by Mcgee and Warms. The reading focused on some of the revolutionary minds of Sociology such…