Bronislaw Malinowski Quotes
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Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the…
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Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual. Man…
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There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either…
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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…
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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…
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You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.
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No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it.…
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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…
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[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
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An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the…
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The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish charicature of a human being are gone. This picture is…
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