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“In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large that they are hard to encompass with one synthetic glance. But in this crude form they are not scientific facts at all; they are absolutely elusive, and can be fixed only by interpretation, by seeing them sub specie aeternitatis, by grasping what is essential in them and fixing this. Only laws and generalizations are scientific facts, and field work consists only and exclusively in the interpretation of the chaotic social reality, in subordinating it to general rules.”

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Bronislaw Malinowski

Bronislaw Malinowski was a leading anthropologist known for his fieldwork in the Pacific Islands. He is credited with developing the method of participant observation, a fundamental approach in modern anthropology. Malinowski's work focused on understanding the culture of a people from their own perspective, a concept known as 'functionalism.' more

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