Bronislaw Malinowski
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| Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski | |
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| Date & Place of Birth | April 7, 1884 Krakow, Poland |
| Parents | Lucjan Malinowski Józefa Lacka Malinowski |
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| Spouse | Elsie Rosaline Masson (m. 1910; d. 1935) Anna Valetta Hayman-Joyce (m. 1940) |
| Children | Jozefa Mazya Malinowski Wanda Malinowski Helena Paula Malinowski |
| Date & Place of Death | May 16, 1942 New Haven, Connecticut |
| Place of Burial | Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut |
| Education | Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (1908; PhD) London School of Economics, London, England (1910) University of London, London, England (1916; DSc) |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
| Writings | The Family Among the Australian Aborigines (1913) The Natives of Mailu (1915) The Trobriand Islands (1915) Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) The Scientific Theory of Culture (1922) Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926) Crime and Custom in Savage Society (1926) |
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was an early-20th century anthropologist whose ground-breaking studies of Melanesian islanders turned anthropology from an "arm-chair" science to a specialized discipline.