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ANTHROPOLOGIST

Bronisław Malinowski

1884 - 1942

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Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (Polish: [brɔˈɲiswaf maliˈnɔfskʲi]; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology. Malinowski was born in what was part of the Austrian partition of Poland. He graduated from CK III Gimnazjum im. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bronisław Malinowski has received more than 1,259,946 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Bronisław Malinowski is the 2nd most popular anthropologist (down from 1st in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Poland (down from 30th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Anthropologist.

Bronisław malinowski is most famous for his fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands. Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist who studied the people of the Trobriand Islands and their culture.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 2 out of 69. Before him are Claude Lévi-Strauss. After him are Edward Burnett Tylor, James George Frazer, Lewis H. Morgan, Jane Goodall, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, Clifford Geertz, and Gregory Bateson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 6. Before him are Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Amedeo Modigliani, Isoroku Yamamoto, and Hideki Tojo. After him are Edvard Beneš, Anton Drexler, İsmet İnönü, Édouard Daladier, Peter Debye, and Max Brod. Among people deceased in 1942, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 4. Before him are Stefan Zweig, Reinhard Heydrich, and Janusz Korczak. After him are Edith Stein, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anton Drexler, José Raúl Capablanca, Robert Musil, Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, and Robert Bosch.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 35 out of 1,454. Before him are Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Kurt Lewin (1890), Irena Sendler (1910), and Marie Leszczyńska (1703). After him are Leonid Kravchuk (1934), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Günther von Kluge (1882), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Rudolf Virchow (1821), and Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Poland

Among anthropologists born in Poland, Bronisław Malinowski ranks 1. After him are Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (1755).

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