Author: Malinowski, Bronislaw
Title: A SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF CULTURE. And other essays.
Description: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1990. 11th printing 228 pp. Pb. Originally published 1944. Malinowski presents in this book his definitive statement of the theory of functionalism. As the essential clue to the understanding of human behavior, primitive and civilized, he analyzes the functional principle that culture is an examination of the fundamentals of anthropology for the purpose of constructing a general system to explain the facts of culture by this principle. The first essay stipulates that anthropology can be viewed in a scientific manner, and offers insights into culture, human nature, and the ideal object of study. The other essays in this collection further explore functionalism and analyse the work and influence of Sir James Frazer on the field of anthropology. very good condition

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