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He was a French anthropologist and has been called along with JG Frazer, the father of modern Anthropology.
His work was also key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
Levi Strauss was born to French parents in Brussels. He studied law and philosophy in Paris. His works include the family and social life of the Nambikwara Indians…
BK Malinowski was born on 7th April, 1884 - 1942 in Krakow, Poland
After four years of research, study and writing in anthropology at the London School of Economics, he set out on a field trip to Australia. Here he met AR Radcliffe Brown and received from him valuable hints about fieldwork.
Malinowski evolved the understanding primitive cultures in terms of the use or function of a custom or belief for the maintenance of a society was a radically new approach.
Functionalism
The idea of culture was the basic point in the conceptual framework of Malinowski. His writings speaks about the functional approach in the analysis of culture.
