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Westermarck och Malinowski – vänskap och konkurrens under ett vetenskapligt paradigmskifte
Authors: Lagerspetz Olof Markus Olli | Suolinna Kirsti
Year: 2022
Type of publication: článek v odborném periodiku
Name of source: Finsk tidskrift
Page from-to: 7-34
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cze Westerrmarck and Malinowski – Friendship and Competition during a Scientific Paradigm Shift In the interwar years, social anthropology went through an intellectual paradigm shift from evolutionism to functionalism. Bronislaw Malinowski played two roles at once. He presented himself as a revolutionary in contrast to Edward Westermarck’s more conservative leanings. But he also viewed himself as Westermarck’s disciple. Their correspondence testifies to friendship. An intellectual paradigm shift is the result of several agents, their cooperation and conflict. Personal and intellectual relations, including competition within Malinowski’s own generation, create a dynamic mix. The most important primary source of this paper is Westermarck’s unpublished correspondence with Malinowski. Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Westermarck, Evolutionism, functionalism, anthropology, paradigm shift, biography
eng Westerrmarck and Malinowski – Friendship and Competition during a Scientific Paradigm Shift In the interwar years, social anthropology went through an intellectual paradigm shift from evolutionism to functionalism. Bronislaw Malinowski played two roles at once. He presented himself as a revolutionary in contrast to Edward Westermarck’s more conservative leanings. But he also viewed himself as Westermarck’s disciple. Their correspondence testifies to friendship. An intellectual paradigm shift is the result of several agents, their cooperation and conflict. Personal and intellectual relations, including competition within Malinowski’s own generation, create a dynamic mix. The most important primary source of this paper is Westermarck’s unpublished correspondence with Malinowski. Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Westermarck, Evolutionism, functionalism, anthropology, paradigm shift, biography