Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays
1948
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Three famous Malinowski essays! Malinowski, one of the all-time great anthropologists of the world, had a talent for bringing together in single comprehension the warm reality of human living with the cool abstractions of science. His pages have become an almost indispensable link between the knowing of exotic and remote people with theoretical knowledge about humankind. An important collection of three of his most famous essays, Magic, Science and Religion offers readers a set of concepts about religion, magic, science, rite and myth in the course of forming vivid impressions and understandings of the Trobrianders of New Guinea. Also by Malinowski and available from Waveland Argonauts of the Western An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea, Enhanced Edition ( 9781478602095). Titles of related interest from Waveland Angrosino, The Culture of the Exploring the Anthropology of Religion (ISBN 9781577662938) and Malefijt, Religion and An Introduction to Anthropology of Religion (ISBN 9780881334838).
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Author
Bronislaw Malinowski
Author · 11 books
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (IPA: [ˌmaliˈnɔfski]; April 7, 1884 – May 16, 1942) was a Polish anthropologist widely considered to be one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century because of his pioneering work on ethnographic fieldwork, with which he also gave a major contribution to the study of Melanesia, and the study of reciprocity.
