Bücher von Bronislaw Malinowski

While much has been written about the work of Malinowski, little is known about his personal life. These letters, available for the first time, offer an insight of the man - not just as teacher and scientist but as a husband, father and friend.

The concluding part of "Coral Gardens and Their Magic" provides a linguistic commentary to the ethnography on agriculture. Malinowski gives a full description of the language of the Trobrianders as an aspect of culture.

This volume is a reassessment of Malinowski's work by a group of his former pupils and colleagues. A frank evaluation, not a eulogy, it examines the real and lasting importance of Malinowski's contribution to a range of subjects.

This volume discusses aspects of small scale societies, including the study of the mental processes, as well as indigenous economics and law.

Presents both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture.

In Sex and Repression in Savage Society Malinowski applies his experiences on the Trobriand Islands to the study of sexuality, and the attendant issues of eroticism, obscenity, incest, oppression, power and parenthood.

While much has been written about the work of Malinowski, little is known about his personal life. These letters, available for the first time, offer an insight of the man not just as teacher and scientist but as a husband, father and friend.

The author takes into account the various views of religion which Tylor, Frazer, Marett, and Durkheim have given and goes on from there to provide his own conception that religion and magic are ways men have to make the world acceptable.