Talk:Bronisław Malinowski
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Surely this article should mention The Sexual Life of Savages and the ensuing controversy? See also Talk:Trobriand Islands#Malinowski. Jpatokal 09:19, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] WWI
According to Kuper, when war broke out 'all enemy scientists who chose to do so were allowed to return to Europe'. If there are no objections I'll change this in the article. Tom leather 11:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Certainly not Austrian
Whoever added that he was Austrian please provide a source. He considered himself a Pole and so does his family. Just because Krakow was at the time part of Austria Hungary (a separate province at that) doesn't mean that all those people suddenly became Austrian. JRWalko 22:48, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Reply: He wasn't Austrian, but you have to say that he was an Austrian citizen or else his biography doesn't make any sense. He was trapped in the Pacific and forced to live with the Trobriand islanders during WWI because he was an Austrian citizen, not because he was a Pole. My solution was to simply say that he was from Austria-Hungary but was Polish, a statement that is accurate and lets the readers understand the events of his life in context.
[edit] Sabotage
someone seem sto have written a lot of nonsense about him using thermals to fly a dog as a kite and then fall down dead - an dalthough very interesting, i am not sure it is true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.240.233.12 (talk) 11:27, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Jomo Kenyatta
Should Kenyatta be mentioned in the article, as he was a student of Malinowski at the London School of Economics?Georgequizbowl08 (talk) 02:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "savages"?
"After a period in which he actively avoided contact with the native Trobrainders, who he considered to be "savages", Malinowski finally decided, out of loneliness, to participate in their society". As far as I know, Malinowski arrived to the Trobriands exiled but with the proposal of doing anthropological fieldwork. If the information that he avoided contact with the native considering them "savege" comes from the "diary in a strict sense", I find it wrong. He already was an anthropologist at that time, and would not consider "savage" the trobriandese except in his personal writings and only to express its lonelyness and nostalgia. stafe 08:17 6 april 2008
