Economic anthropology
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Economic anthropology is a field that attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope. It is an amalgamation of economics and anthropology. It is prac
Bronislaw Malinowski, anthropologist at the London School of Economics
A Kula bracelet from the Trobriand Islands.
Three tongkonan noble houses in a Torajan village.
The Sharon Temple, Sharon, Ontario circa 1860.
Bronisław Malinowski
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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropol
Economic anthropology
…discipline of economics, of which it is highly critical. Its origins as a sub-field of anthropology began with work by the Polish founder of anthropology Bronislaw Malinowski and the French Marcel Mauss on the nature of reciprocity as an alternative to market exchange. In an earlier German context, Heinrich Schurtz has been…
Plate I photo, Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922), showing a village and Malinowski's tent
Bronislaw Malinowski with natives on Trobriand Islands; between October 1917 and October 1918.
Malinowski with Trobriand Islanders, 1918