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Anthropologist who gained fame for his studies on Melanesians

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Bronislaw Malinowski

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Controversial Diary of Malinowski, a very personal account of his encounters in Melanesia that was definitely not intended to be published.

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A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term

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Malinowski mentored this man, and wrote the introduction to his book Facing Mount Kenya.

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Jomo Kenyatta

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Book by Malinowski which was a famous critique of psychoanalysis. Malinowski demonstrated that Freud’s Oedipus complex was not universal in this book.

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Sex and Repression in Savage Society

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Essay collection by Malinowski detailing major aspects of the culture of the Trobriander Islanders.

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Magic, Science, and Religion

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Book by Malinowski, part of his trilogy on the Triobrand Islanders, in which he examined the Kula Ring Gift Exchange. This is his most famous work.

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Argonauts of the Western Pacific

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Book in which Malinowski examined the relationship between magic and agriculture in Melanesia.

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Coral Gardens and their Magic

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Book in which Malinowski examined race relations in Africa

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The Dynamics of Cultural Change

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French anthropologist who applied the structuralist principles of Ferdinand de Saussure to Anthropology.

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Claude Levi-Strauss

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Memoir by Levi-Strauss detailing his encounters with the Nambikwara and Bororo peoples of Brazil

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Tristes Tropiques (Sad Tropics :( )

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Book by Levi-Strauss examining how primitive people think.

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The Savage Mind

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Four Volume work of Cultural Anthropology by Claude Levi Strauss, with famous works like ‘The Raw and the Cooked’ and ‘The Origin of Table Manners’

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Mythologiques

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Levi Strauss examined familial relationships in this book.

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The Elementary Structures of Kinship

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British anthropologist who was the founder of structural functionalism, which focuses on groups within societies.

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Alfred Radcliffe Brown

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Book by Radcliffe Brown in which he examines the people of a certain Indian island chain.

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The Andaman Islanders

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American Anthropologist best known for his work on Symbolic Anthropology (study of cultural signals).

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Clifford Geertz

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Technique famously used by Geertz in which cultural behaviors would be analyzed in social context

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Thick Description

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Geertz’s most famous work, an essay in which Geertz examines a certain social behavior in Indonesia.

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Deep Play (A bet with stakes so high no reasonable person would enter it, first conceived by Bentham): Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

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Book in which Geertz compared the development of the title religion in Morocco and Indonesia

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Islam Observed

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Most famous essay collection by Geertz, containing numerous famous essays including Deep Play.

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The Interpretation of Cultures

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Famous essay by Geertz in which he examined a culture of theater rather than war in Negara.

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Negara: The Theatre State

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