In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form… — 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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