The Early Writings of Bronislaw Malinowski

Ludwik Krzyzanowski translator Peter Skalník editor Robert J Thornton editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Jun '06

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A 1993 collection of the writings of Bronislaw Malinowski, born and educated in Poland, who helped to establish British social anthropology.

This 1993 collection of Malinowski's early writings establishes the intellectual background to his achievement, and shows how his considerable impact on twentieth-century thought is rooted in the late nineteenth-century philosophy of central Europe, especially the work of Ernst Mach and Friedrich Nietzsche, and in the ethnological theories of James Frazer.Bronislaw Malinowski, born and educated in Poland, helped to establish British social anthropology. His classic monographs on the Trobriand Islanders were published between 1922 and 1935, when he was professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. This 1993 collection of Malinowski's early writings, establishes the intellectual background to this achievement. Written between 1904 and 1914, before he went to Melanesia, all but two of the essays are published here in English for the first time. They show how Malinowski's considerable impact on twentieth-century thought is rooted in the late nineteenth-century philosophy of central Europe, especially the work of philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach, Friedrich Nietzsche, and in the ethnological theories of James Frazer.

ISBN: 9780521026468

Dimensions: 227mm x 151mm x 20mm

Weight: 531g

344 pages