Before being and anthropologist, he studied philosophy, physics, maths, psychology and economy, but then he went to England to study the beautiful career, social anthropology.
In 1914 Malinowski went to Papua New Guinea, where he lived with people of a different culture.
Specially he studied "Kula", a ceremonial exchange of bracelets and necklaces in Trobriand Islands.
Malinowski is a very important man, because he transformed the anthropology. He was an expert ethnographer.
To be an ethnographer, you have to live with another culture. It means that you have to learn the language, eat their food and make the same things as them. At the same time yo have to study all the situations of your experience in the place.
Personally I admire him, because his ethnography about Kula is so interesting and he did it in another time, when was difficult to travel.
Also, the text about kula was the fist I had to read at the university, so when I remember it I get very emotional.
I didn't know that he was a physicist
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