The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility. — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it and enslaved… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where,… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not. — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison. — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual.… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
“...yesterday, returning from Wawela I had some ethnological ideas, but I can't remember what they were.” — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world. — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
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