The Father in Primitive Psychology and Myth in Primitive Psychology: [1927]

by Bronisław Malinowski

This volume investigates ideas, beliefs and sentiments in relation to social organization.

222 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1927

About the author

Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (IPA: [ˌmaliˈnɔfski]; April 7, 1884 – May 16, 1942) was a Polish anthropologist widely considered to be one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century because of his pioneering work on ethnographic fieldwork, with which he also gave a major contribution to the study of Melanesia, and the study of reciprocity.

Reviews

[Patrice-loup Rifaux · Rating 4 out of 5]

At first degree of reading, it's a highly interesting description of a human society. At a second degree, it's a mirror to understand the mentality of a WASP in the beginning of XX century, a scientist, toward primitive society.

[- Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Betty Friedan talked about functional anthropology and this book seems to be pragmatic depiction of this school of thought, in regard to fatherhood in primitive societies, which I would say, that it’s not very different from modern evolutionary psychology.