"In the field one has to face a……" — Bronislaw Malinowski
"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 they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and gerneralizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules."
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11 Quotes by Bronislaw Malinowski
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The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and…
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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…
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The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish charicature of a human being…
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