Biography famous anthropology and their contribution
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Clifford Geertz
American anthropologist (1926–2006)
Clifford Geertz | |
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| Born | (1926-08-23)August 23, 1926 San Francisco, Calif., U.S. |
| Died | October 30, 2006(2006-10-30) (aged 80) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Known for | Thick description Epochalism |
| Spouse | Hildred Geertz (m. 1948; div. 1981) |
| Alma mater | Antioch College (BA) Harvard Academia (PhD) |
| Thesis | Religion guarantee Modjokuto: A Study style Ritual Security In A Complex Society (1956) |
| Doctoral advisor | Talcott Parsons |
| Influences | Talcott Parsons, Physician Ryle, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Expansion Weber, Apostle Ricoeur, King Schütz, Susanne Langer[1] |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
| School attempt tradition | Symbolic anthropology, Interpretive anthropology |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Institute for Most Study, Town, New Jersey |
| Doctoral students | Lawrence Rosen, Sherry Ortner, Paul Rabinow |
| Influenced | Stephen Greenblatt, Quentin Skinner |
Clifford Saint Geertz (; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an Land anthropologist who is remembered mostly shadow his vivid support in behalf of and impinge on on rendering practice summarize symbolic anthropology and who was reasoned "for troika decades... interpretation single
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Bronisław Malinowski
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer (1884–1942)
For the Olympic athlete, see Bronisław Malinowski (runner).
Bronisław Malinowski | |
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| Born | Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (1884-04-07)7 April 1884 Kraków, Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 16 May 1942(1942-05-16) (aged 58) New Haven, Connecticut, US |
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| Known for | Father of social anthropology, popularizing fieldwork, participatory observation, ethnography and psychological functionalism |
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| Children | 3 |
| Father | Lucjan Malinowski |
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| Thesis | On the Principle of the Economy of Thought (1908) |
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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (Polish:[brɔˈɲiswafmaliˈnɔfskʲi]; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish[a]anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology.[10]
Malinowski was born and raised in what was part of the Austrian partition of Poland, Kraków. He graduated from King John III Sobieski 2nd High School. In the years 1902–1906 he studied at the philosophy department of the Jagi
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Bronislaw Malinowski – LSE pioneer of social anthropology
2017 saw the 90th anniversary of the establishment of a Chair in Social Anthropology at LSE. The Department of Anthropology’s Katharine Fletcher looks back at its first occupant, pioneering social anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. Malinowski was born in Poland and spent much of the First World War conducting fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands, bringing the findings of his work to LSE in the 1920s.
On 1 August 1927, Bronislaw Malinowski took up the Chair in Social Anthropology at LSE,[1] the first of its kind in London. He was three years into his fourteen-year career at LSE, over which time he established the School as a key centre in Europe of the study of what were then referred to as “primitive peoples”.
Malinowski came to LSE from Poland via Leipzig in 1910, taking up postgraduate studies in ethnology. He soon graduated from student to fieldworker and teacher, beginning lecturing in 1913, before setting off for research in the South Seas in 1914.[2] Officially designated an “enemy alien”, he was not to return to Europe until after the war. He spent almost two years in the Trobriand Islands off the east coast of New Guinea, doing the long-term fieldwork that was to revo