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Bronislaw Malinowski

7 April 1884-16 May 1942

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Anthropology 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Culture is, in the widest context of human behavior, an organized system of purposeful activities whose ultimate goal was the satisfaction of human wants.

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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.

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Death is a reminder of our insignificance. Though the main actor leaves the stage, the tragedy is not at an end.

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Death is the reason for the existence of religion. Defined as a 'centrifugal force' in a society, evidenced by fear, dismay, and demoralization.

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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.