Bronislaw Malinowski was a Polish British Anthropologist (1884- 1942).
He was the founder of the anthropological current named “functionalism”. His pioneering work in ethnographic fieldwork was one of the bigger contributions that he made to the discipline. He said: “the final mission is to understand the point of view of natives, their relations with life, their vision of world.”
His first fieldworks were on Nueva Guinea. In that place he studied, with a global approach, how are the relations between native people, their religion, economic, and social organization. He also made important studies of different African tribal societies.
I really like Malinowski because he believes that, if you really want to understand different cultures, you have to study the societies in their origin places. You have to live with them; trying to understand the motives of their actions. And that’s why I believe that this type of approach it`s the most important one, because if you established a closed relation with people, you could understand the motives of their actions, their feelings, their ideas. I believe that that’s the beautiful thing of qualitative investigations, that you can understand the real motors that moves not only one person actions, but also the motives of an entire society.
He was the founder of the anthropological current named “functionalism”. His pioneering work in ethnographic fieldwork was one of the bigger contributions that he made to the discipline. He said: “the final mission is to understand the point of view of natives, their relations with life, their vision of world.”
His first fieldworks were on Nueva Guinea. In that place he studied, with a global approach, how are the relations between native people, their religion, economic, and social organization. He also made important studies of different African tribal societies.
I really like Malinowski because he believes that, if you really want to understand different cultures, you have to study the societies in their origin places. You have to live with them; trying to understand the motives of their actions. And that’s why I believe that this type of approach it`s the most important one, because if you established a closed relation with people, you could understand the motives of their actions, their feelings, their ideas. I believe that that’s the beautiful thing of qualitative investigations, that you can understand the real motors that moves not only one person actions, but also the motives of an entire society.
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