You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.
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| Birth: | 7th April, 1884 |
| Death: | 16th May, 1942 |
| Nationality: | British, Polish |
| Profession: | Anthropologist, Professor, Writer |
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Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski was born in Kraków, Poland. He was a Polish anthropologist, one of the most important 20th-century anthropologists. He has been also referred to as a sociologist and ethnographer. In 1908 he received a doctorate in philosophy from Kraków's Jagiellonian University, where he focused on mathematics and the physical sciences. In 1922, he earned a doctorate of science in anthropology and was teaching at the London School of Economics. That year his book Argonauts of the Western Pacific was published. It was widely regarded as a masterpiece, and Malinowski became one of the best-known anthropologists in the world. He became a British citizen in 1931. In 1942 he co-founded the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.
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