FTP name this Polish-born anthopologist.
He had planned a career in physics and math, but while recuperating from an illness changed plans after reading The Golden Bough.  He saw cultural institutions as fulfilling three basic types of needs -- biological, instrumental, and integrative.  His breakthrough work was serendipitous; the outbreak of World War I left him stranded for three years in the Trobriand Islands, from which experience he wrote Argonauts of the Western Pacific and Coral Gardens and Their Magic.  FTP name this Polish-born anthopologist.
He had planned a career in physics and math, but while recuperating from an illness changed plans after reading The Golden Bough.  
Bronislaw Malinowski