Bronislaw Malinowski
1884 – 1942 Polish Social anthropologist, LSE professor
Founder of modern social anthropology at the LSE whose seminar trained Jomo Kenyatta.
- Religion
- Roman Catholic background
- Affiliations
- London School of Economics; founder of modern social anthropology and its functionalist method.
Bronislaw Malinowski was a Polish-born anthropologist who taught at the LSE and pioneered long-term fieldwork living among the people studied. His work in the Trobriand Islands produced 'Argonauts of the Western Pacific' and established the functionalist approach to studying societies. In 1927 he was appointed to the first chair of social anthropology at the University of London. His famous LSE seminar trained a generation of scholars, among them Jomo Kenyatta, whose ethnography 'Facing Mount Kenya' Malinowski introduced.
Connections
- mentor of Jomo Kenyatta — Supervised Kenyatta's ethnography and wrote the introduction to Facing Mount Kenya.
- associate of Sidney Webb — Both were central figures at the early London School of Economics.
- associate of Sidney Webb — Both were central to the early London School of Economics.
In the timeline
- 1922 Malinowski publishes Argonauts of the Western Pacific author
- 1927 Malinowski takes the first chair of social anthropology appointed professor
- 1930 Malinowski's seminar trains a generation seminar leader
- 1935 Studying Anthropology under Malinowski at the LSE mentioned
- 1935 Enrolling at the LSE under Bronislaw Malinowski central figure
- 1936 Kenyatta studies anthropology under Malinowski teacher
- 1936 Malinowski's seminar and the making of a native ethnographer seminar leader
- 1938 Kenyatta writes Facing Mount Kenya from the seminar teacher and mentor