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Buddy's favorite section of Malinowski's book described the island of Kaytalugi, populated entirely by man-hungry women who went about naked.
Beard 2010
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There is every imaginable ethical difference between Podesta's work and Malinowski's.
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Researching for an essay I became very interested in the language and customs of the Trobriand islanders, although since I was reading Malinowski's work from the 1920s, it's probably a bit out of date!
On Mlabri DC 2007
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There's always Malinowski's functionalist analysis of the supernatural in Magic, Science, and Religion.
Superstition 2006
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Malinowski's was a functionalist analysis wherein superstition served to reduce anxiety where there is uncertainty and a risky situation.
Superstition 2006
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Even in 1929, you could have legitimately asked how closely Malinowski's analysis corresponded to reality -- ethnographer bias, and all that lot.
Archive 2005-07-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005
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Even in 1929, you could have legitimately asked how closely Malinowski's analysis corresponded to reality -- ethnographer bias, and all that lot.
The Rulez Part Deux Douglas Hoffman 2005
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Jakobson derived the term "phatic" (for communications that foreground the contact) from Malinowski's work on meaning in "primitive" languages.
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The Midshipmen opened the scoring on quarterback Ed Malinowski's five-yard run with 3: 42 left in the first quarter.
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Since Malinowski's ` charter theory of myth 'we have had virtually no ethnographic analysis, let alone a fertile theoretical formulation, of the relation between myth and ritual.
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