Bronislaw Malinowski, an Early Contributor to the Cross-Cultural Study of Human

question 5

Multiple Choice

Bronislaw Malinowski, an early contributor to the cross-cultural study of human psychology, is famous for his fieldwork among the Trobriand Islanders of the South Pacific. Although some of his specific findings have been questioned by more recent scholars, no contemporary anthropologist would dispute Malinowski's contention that

• A) Freud's work is worthless once taken out of its particular cultural context (patriarchal Austria during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries).
• B) psychology and anthropology have little relevance to each other, since the former focuses on the individual and the latter studies cultures and societies as a whole.
• C) psychologists are not willing to step out of their tightly controlled laboratories, and anthropologists are too focused on finding exotic exceptions to every possible human universal.
• D) researchers cannot get at what is in people's minds, only at what they say and do.
• E) individual psychology is molded in a specific cultural context.

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