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“The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.”

Quote by Bronislaw Malinowski

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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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