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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

  • There is every imaginable ethical difference between Podesta's work and Malinowski's.

    All Lobbyists are Not Created Equal 2009

  • 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customs of the Trobriand islanders, although since I was reading Malinowski's work from the 1920s, it's probably a bit out of date!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

  • There's always Malinowski's functionalist analysis of the supernatural in Magic, Science, and Religion.

    Superstition 2006

  • Malinowski's was a functionalist analysis wherein superstition served to reduce anxiety where there is uncertainty and a risky situation.

    Superstition 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • Jakobson derived the term "phatic" (for communications that foreground the contact) from Malinowski's work on meaning in "primitive" languages.

    'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth 2001

  • The Midshipmen opened the scoring on quarterback Ed Malinowski's five-yard run with 3: 42 left in the first quarter.

    NCAA Football - Rutgers vs. Navy 2000

  • 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.

    Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-east Thailand 1969

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