Person

Malinowski, Bronislaw Kaspel (1884 - 1942)

Born
7 April 1884
Poland
Died
16 May 1942
Occupation
Anthropologist

Summary

Bronislaw Malinowski worked on the Robert Mond Anthropological Expedition of New Guinea and North West Melanesia 1914-1918 and worked in Australia 1918-1920. He married Elsie, daughter of D.O. Masson (qv).

Archival resources

South Australian Museum Archives

  • Bronislaw Kaspel Malinowski - Records, 1914 - 1915, Non-Australian 14; South Australian Museum Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Selleck, R. J. W., Finding Home: the Masson Family (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013), 442 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Stocking, George W., 'Maclay, Kubary, Malinowski: Archetypes from the Dreamtime of Anthropology' in Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge, George W. Stocking Jr., ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), pp. 9-74. Details

Edited Books

  • Wayne, Helena ed., The story of a marriage: the letters of Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson, 2 vols (London: Routledge, 1995). Details

Journal Articles

  • Young, Michael W., 'The intensive study of a restricted area, or, why did Malinowski go to the Trobriand Islands?', Oceania, 55 (1) (1984), 1-26. Details

Resources

McCarthy, G.J.

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