He is acknowledged as the founder of anthropological functionalism, which he applied to his study of the Kula Ring Exchange in the Trobriand Islands.
He argued for an organic long-run model of culture change in his posthumous "inquiry into race relations in Africa", The Dynamics of Culture Change. This man's dictum that "speech is a mode of action, not a countersign of thought" has been used by anthropologist Robin Roberts to suggest he is the founder of the sub-field of cultural pragmatics. He is acknowledged as the founder of anthropological functionalism, which he applied to his study of the Kula Ring Exchange in the Trobriand Islands. Born in Poland, for 10 points, name this author of Argonauts of the Western Pacific.
He argued for an organic long-run model of culture change in his posthumous "inquiry into race relations in Africa", The Dynamics of Culture Change.
Bronislaw {Malinowski}