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Bronislaw Malinowski

Bronislaw Malinowski
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Bronislaw Malinowski, a Polish-born British anthropologist, established methods of modern cultural anthropological research in his study of the people of the Trobriand Islands, near Papua New Guinea. An actor recites an excerpt from Malinowski’s 1922 book about these people, Argonauts of the Western Pacific.
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