Engaging Anthropological Theory by Moberg Mark

Author:Moberg, Mark
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780203097991
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Figure 9.1 A.R. Radcliffe-Brown. Courtesy of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

The two men were also quite different in their attitudes toward field research. Malinowski set a standard for anthropological field research that few anthropologists since then have equaled. During the four years he spent in enforced exile, he became fluent in Trobriandese and compiled a massive ethnographic record dealing with almost every aspect of Trobriand culture. In contrast, Radcliffe-Brown’s ethnographic contributions were slight. His primary work was conducted in 1906–08 with Australian aborigines on the Andaman Islands, which were a British penal colony. Radcliffe-Brown apparently never acquired fluency in any field language; he worked entirely through interpreters, and in some cases had his informants brought to him, where he interviewed them on his veranda. Radcliffe-Brown is usually cited as the founder of the structural functional viewpoint in British social anthropology.

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