Methodology of Malinowski

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Introducing Bronislaw Malinowski:- Bronislaw Malinowski, is taken as the father of structural functionalist sociology.He studied philsophy and natural sciences at the university of Krakow,latter his interest turn to anthropology ,and he came to London to pursue his degree on it.Malinowski began his post graduate studies at the London School of Economics where he studied under C.G. Seligman, a member of the Cambridge University expediation to Torres Straits in 1898 that first introduced structured field research techniques to British anthropology, his influence further encouraged an interest in social anthropology.He started lecturing at the London School of Economics where he became professor in 1927 and he died in the year 1942. The importance of Malinowski's work is immense and heavily influenced by his broad experiences with other cultures. Traveling all over the world throughout his lifetime, Malinowski spoke many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Motuan and Trobriand, and lived everywhere from Arizona with a Hopi Indian Tribe, to the Canary Islands, and all over Europe.Malinowski is known as the first practitioner of participant observation in fieldwork which warrants an understanding of culture using a combination of subjective and objective observation. It was his vast knowledge of the similarities and differences in many cultures that led him to develop his way of anthropological thinking. Malinowski in his classic work on “Agronauts” owe to some people,the most importantly to Mr.Robert Mon,London school of Economics who bestowed him with financial help,Professor L.T.Hobhouse for valuable advice,Sir James Frazer,as his first love for ethnology is associated with the reading of ‘Golden Bough’.Lastly,to Professor Seligman to whom he dedicated his book.It is he who gave him the initative of the
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