This text presents nearly 200 of Bronislaw Malinowski's photographs, taken between 1915 and 1918, of the Trobriand Islanders. Michael Young, an anthropologist and Malinowski's authorized biographer, has selected the photographs based on one of Malinowski's studies of the region, and the plan of that[...]

During the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski found himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands, off the eastern coast of New Guinea. By living among the people he studied there, speaking their language and participating in their activities, he invented what became known a[...]

Bronislaw Malinowski, en av den moderna kulturantropologiens grundläggare, föddes i Polen 1884. Efter naturvetenskaplig utbildning i hem landet kom han till England och började där orientera sig i riktning mot antropologien. Han kom i fortsättningen att dela sin tid mellan antropologiskt fälta[...]