MALINOWSKI, BRONISLAW (KASPER)

born April 7, 1884, Krakw, Pol., Austria-Hungary died May 16, 1942, New Haven, Conn., U.S. one of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century who is widely recognized as the founder of social anthropology and principally associated with field studies of the peoples of Oceania. Major Works: The Family Among the Australian Aborigines (1913); The Natives of Mailu (1915); Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922); Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926); Crime and Custom in Savage Society (1926); The Father in Primitive Psychology (1927); Sex and Repression in Savage Society (1927); The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929); Coral Gardens and Their Magic, 2 vol. (1935); The Foundations of Faith and Morals (1936); posthumously published works include A Scientific Theory of Culture (1944); Freedom and Civilization (1944); The Dynamics of Culture Change (1945); Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays (1948). A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term (1967) is a translation of private field diaries kept in Polish during 191415 and 191718.