Bronislaw Malinowski

I recall Bronislaw Malinowski’s “theory of the gap” from undergraduate anthropology: that areas which are important, but uncertain and beyond control, are the breeding ground for superstition.

Yes some guys are assholes, but it’s still your fault if you get raped 2005

When the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski remarked on the similarity of two brothers in the Trobriand Islands, this was taken as a great insult.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

When the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski remarked on the similarity of two brothers in the Trobriand Islands, this was taken as a great insult.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Moving to England in 1925, Powdermaker began studying anthropology with the noted Polish-born scholar Bronislaw Malinowski at the London School of Economics.

Hortense Powdermaker. 2009

Argonauts of the western Pacific; an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea, by Bronislaw Malinowski... with a preface by Sir James George Frazer... with 5 maps, 65 illustrations, and 2 figures.

Island Magic tellurian 2007

On the other side of the Atlantic, Bronislaw Malinowski, the father of modern British anthropology as a discipline grounded in intensive fieldwork, had deep German intellectual roots that lead back to Herder as well.

Johann Gottfried von Herder Forster, Michael 2007

Trobriand Islanders, Bronislaw Malinowski was con - vinced of the fundamental importance of myth for primitive and traditional societies.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MIRCEA ELIADE 1968

In 1929, anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski visited the Trobriand Islands and discovered that lovers there would go through several phases of sucking and nibbling during intercourse before biting off each other's eyelashes at the point of orgasm.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2012

Named for Denis de Trobriand, first lieutenant in France's 1793 D'Entrecasteaux South Sea Expedition, the Trobriands were made famous by Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, who studied them during World War I and wrote a class monograph about the precocious sexuality of the islanders

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Richard Bangs 2011

According the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, all cultures, no matter how advanced, have the capacity for both science and myth.

Serendip's Exchange - eglaser 2009