Bronisław Malinowski
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884–1942)
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Polish anthropologist who basically invented modern fieldwork by actually living with the people he studied instead of armchair theorizing. His ethnographic methods became the blueprint for how anthropologists do their jobs today.
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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology.
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