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The 37 pages that link to Bronisław Malinowski, each with the reason it gives.

• EthnographyRelated: His fieldwork helped make sustained participant observation a disciplinary model.

• MythRelated: His fieldwork-based approach treated myth as a working part of social life.

• Cultural anthropologyRelated: His fieldwork helped make participant observation a disciplinary standard.

• Gift economyRelated: His account of the Kula ring documented exchange embedded in ceremonial and political life.

• James George FrazerCompared with: Malinowski’s fieldwork-based approach challenged broad comparisons built from secondhand reports.

• Anthropology of religionRelated: His Trobriand research linked religious practices to uncertainty, social life, and practical needs.

• MagicRelated: His ethnographic account connected magic to anxiety and uncertainty in everyday life.

• TraditionRelated: His ethnographic approach documented how customs function in everyday social life.

• E. E. Evans-PritchardRelated: Malinowski’s fieldwork tradition influenced the discipline in which Evans-Pritchard trained and worked.

• Marcel MaussCompared with: His ethnography of the Kula gave Mauss evidence, while their methods and theoretical emphases differed.

• Economic anthropologyRelated: His account of the kula exchange made ceremonial exchange central to economic anthropology.

• Kula ringRelated: His fieldwork brought Kula exchange to wide scholarly attention.

• Social anthropologyRelated: His Trobriand Islands research helped define modern social anthropology’s field method.

• Colonial anthropologyRelated: His Trobriand fieldwork made colonial-era ethnographic practice a model for later anthropology.

• The GiftRelated: His account of the kula exchange helped frame Mauss’s comparative discussion of gifts.

• Edmund LeachRelated: Leach encountered Malinowski’s tradition through British anthropology and fieldwork debates.

• Gift exchangeRelated: His account of the Kula ring documented ceremonial exchange in detail.

• Trobriand IslandsRelated: His research in the islands shaped their prominence in anthropology.

• Ernest GellnerRelated: Gellner succeeded Malinowski’s intellectual legacy at the London School of Economics, while developing a contrasting theoretical style.

• Ethnographic presentRelated: His influential ethnographies helped establish vivid present-tense cultural description as a disciplinary style.

• The Golden BoughCompared with: His ethnographic approach challenged armchair comparisons such as Frazer’s.

• W. H. R. RiversRelated: Malinowski’s later fieldwork in Melanesia developed within the research tradition Rivers helped establish.

• Applied anthropologyRelated: His field methods shaped later efforts to ground practical advice in local social life.

• History of anthropologyBroader topic: His Trobriand Islands research became a model for immersive ethnographic fieldwork.

• Legal anthropologyRelated: His account of obligation and reciprocity challenged narrow definitions of law.

• Ashley MontaguRelated: Malinowski taught Montagu at the London School of Economics and influenced his anthropological training.

• Fei XiaotongRelated: Malinowski supervised Fei’s doctoral work and influenced his ethnographic method.

• Michael HallidayRelated: Malinowski’s account of context influenced the social orientation of Halliday’s linguistics.

• Small talkRelated: He introduced the term “phatic communion” for speech that maintains social bonds.

• Stanisław Ignacy WitkiewiczRelated: Witkacy traveled with Malinowski to Ceylon and Australia in 1914.

• A. P. ElkinCompared with: Malinowski’s functionalism offered a different framework from Elkin’s emphasis on historical diffusion.

• Alfred Radcliffe-BrownCompared with: His emphasis on individual needs and ethnographic method differed from Radcliffe-Brown’s structural focus.

• Adam KuperRelated: Malinowski’s methods and influence help frame the field Kuper examines.

• Audrey RichardsRelated: His teaching at the LSE shaped the anthropological environment in which Richards trained.

• Culture (social anthropology)Related: His long-term fieldwork tied cultural practices to their roles in social life.

• Edvard WestermarckRelated: Malinowski worked in the British anthropological milieu that Westermarck influenced and debated.

• Melford SpiroRelated: Spiro challenged Malinowski’s account of religion as primarily serving social and psychological needs.