"There are no peoples however primitive without religion……" — Bronislaw Malinowski
"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 the scientific attitude, or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them."
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Bronislaw Malinowski
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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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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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The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish charicature of a human being…
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