This thinker drew a clear distinction between the domains of the (*) sacred and profane, which correspond to religion and science, in his essay collection Magic, Science and Religion.
Stanley Tambiah contrasted this thinker's view of magic as "meaningful performance" with that of Edward Tylor, who viewed it as "false science." This thinker said that the archaic nature of ritual language gives it a "coefficient of weirdness" necessary to foster belief in the ritual. Edmund Leach said his first book The Highland Structures of Burma was a dialogue between the rationalism of Levi- Strauss and the functionalism of this thinker, who was his teacher. This thinker drew a clear distinction between the domains of the (*) sacred and profane, which correspond to religion and science, in his essay collection Magic, Science and Religion. This early functionalist discussed the use of spells to help grow taro, bananas, and yams in the last of three works about a group of Pacific Islanders. For 10 points, name this author of Coral Gardens and Their Magic, the final part of his ethnography of the Trobrianders.
Stanley Tambiah contrasted this thinker's view of magic as "meaningful performance" with that of Edward Tylor, who viewed it as "false science.
Bronislaw Malinowski