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• Title:
  Cultural anthropology of Bronisław Malinowski and reflections on the economic crisis
• Creator:
  Szulczewski, Grzegorz
• Contributor:
  Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), Collegium of Socio-Economics, Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Economic Sociology;
  gszulc@sgh.waw.pl
• Description:
  The paper revisits two theories from the cultural anthropology. The first theory is by Bronisław Malinowski, and the second one by Karl Homann. Malinowski criticizes economism and moralism. I present further stages of this criticism, with special importance placed on the concept of homo oeconomicus. Malinowski demonstrates how moral norms are implemented in primitive cultures by means of magic, cults, customs and rituals and rites. Malinowski also argues for the significance of cultural institutions in stabilizing the functioning of primitive communities. These institutions sheltered the communities from the kind of crises that are also experienced in the present times, thus, giving the older schools of thought in cultural anthropology their deserving place within the contemporary thought.;
  Publication of English-language versions of the volumes of the "Annales. Ethics in Economic Life" financed through contract no. 501/1/P-DUN/2017 from the funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education devoted to the promotion of scholarship.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.02.26;
  2017
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Annales. Ethics in Economic Life;6;
  20
• Subject:
  cultural anthropology;
  Bronisław Malinowski;
  economic crisis;
  Z13
• Identifier:
  1899-2226;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/26884 ;
  2353-4869;
  10.18778/1899-2226.20.6.04
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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