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Exorcising the trouble makers: magic, science, and culture
In: Contributions to the study of religion 11
The challenge of the American dream: the Chinese in the United States
In: Minorities in American life series
Religion, science and human crises: a study of China in transition and its implications for the West
In: International library of sociology and social reconstruction
Conceptions of Kinship. Bernard Farber
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 84, Heft 3, S. 656-657
ISSN: 1548-1433
Ethnology: Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historical and Comparative Perspective. David C. Buxbaum
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 82, Heft 3, S. 686-687
ISSN: 1548-1433
Margaret Mead and Psychological Anthropology
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 82, Heft 2, S. 349-353
ISSN: 1548-1433
Linguistics: Radical Change Through Communication in Mao's China. Godwin C. Chu
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 81, Heft 4, S. 977-978
ISSN: 1548-1433
The Cultural Problem of the Cultural Anthropologist
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 81, Heft 3, S. 517-532
ISSN: 1548-1433
An intensive analysis of Malinowski's diary reveals an ethnocentrism hitherto unnoticed in our discipline. Ethnocentrism is common to all societies and cultures, but what anthropologists have so far failed to understand is the very basic distinction between positive ethnocentrism and neutral ethnocentrism. Malinowski, being rooted in white European society and culture where positive enthocentrism prevails, suffered from some peculiar defects in perception of non‐ Western behavior that vitiated some of his theories, such as those on religion and culture change. This paper shows that some of his shortcomings are still with us today and indicates what we can do to remedy them. [religion, ethnocentrism, positive or neutral, Trobriand Islanders, mental hospitals, internal versus external impetuses to culture change, Christianity, Islam, proselytization, Primeval Flood myth, comparative studies, China, Europe, national character, methodology]