Malinowski

between two worlds

The Polish roots of an
anthropological tradition

Edited by
R O Y E L L E N , University of Kent
E R N E S T G E L L N E R , University of Cambridge
G R A Z Y N A K U B I C A , Jagiellonian University
and
J A N U S Z M U C H A , Jagiellonian University

The right of the

University of Cambridge
to print and sell
all manner of books
was granted by
henry Vili in 1534.
The University has printed
and published continuously
since 1584.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Cambridge
New York Port Chester Melbourne Sydney
Contents

List of plates page

List of contributors

Foreword
Helena Wayne (Malinowska)

Preface

Roy Ellen

Acknowledgements

A note on orthography and bibliography

1 Introduction: Bronislaw Malinowski and Cracow

anthropology
Andrzej K. Paluch

2 Malinowski in the history of social anthropology

Raymond Firth

3 Malinowski and the development of Polish social science

Jerzy Szacki

4 From Malinowski to Merton: a case-study in the

transmission of ideas
Piotr Sztompka

5 Malinowski's theory of culture

Andrzej K. Paluch
vi Contents

6 Malinowski's years in Poland 89

Grazyna Kubica

7 Cracow philosophy of the beginning of the twentieth 105

century and the rise of Malinowski's scientific ideas
Andrzej Flis

8 Polish culture of modernism and Malinowski's personality 128

Jan Jerschina

9 Malinowski and the problems of contemporary civilisation 149

Janusz Mucha

10 'Zeno of Cracow' or 'Revolution at Nemi' or 'The Polish 164

revenge: a drama in three acts'
Ernest Gellner

Appendix 1 Bronislaw Malinowski's Cracow doctorate 195

edited by Andrzej Flis

Appendix 2 Six letters from Malinowski, 1906-1922 201

edited by Grazyna Kubica

Appendix 3 A comprehensive bibliography of the writings 210

of Bronislaw Malinowski
compiled by Konstantin Symmons-Symonolewicz and
revised by Grazyna Kubica

General bibliography 229

Index 250