"The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting……" — Bronislaw Malinowski
"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 false, and like many other falsehoods, it has been killed by Science."
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11 Quotes by Bronislaw Malinowski
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Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in…
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Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up…
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There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any…
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In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem…
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The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station,…
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You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a…
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No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in…
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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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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
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