Bronislaw Malinowski
Bronislaw MalinowskiAnthropology is a field of study that seeks to aid in colonial administration, including the educating and moral improvement of natives, and the conducting of commerce with them.
A Charter myth is a myth that is used not only to explain phenomena but to justify social norms, institutions, and/or the status quo to benefit those in power.
The Coefficient of weirdness is the notion (in the language of magic) that the stranger the concept, the more prestige it has.
Collective consciousness is a barren and absolutely useless concept for an ethnographical observer.
Control is defined against domination and power. Domination is intentional. Power is anonymous. Control is merely a faculty of living which gives one endurance and stimulation in his daily pursuits.
Culture is a mechanism for satisfying the needs of individuals (sexual, societal, nutritive).
Culture is an integral composed of partly autonomous, partly coordinated institutions. Each culture owes its completeness and self-sufficiency to the fact that it satisfies the whole range of a people's basic, instrumental and integrative needs.
Culture is, in the widest context of human behavior, an organized system of purposeful activities whose ultimate goal was the satisfaction of human wants.
Culture is total way of life including all the mental, social and physical means which make life run its course. In other words, culture is a system of derived needs and an organized system of purposeful activities.
Culture , unlike society (i.e. the relations between people), cannot be analyzed scientifically.
Disease is, in Haitian medicine, caused by strong emotions, especially anger and shock, which can cause a person's blood to heat, thicken, change color, change taste in the body.
