Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski 

identifying the distinctions between magic, science and religion: James G. Frazer (1933), Edward Tylor (1913), Max Weber (1965) and Bronislaw Malinowski (1956)

 

                                                Counter or other opinions on equivalence:

Gouldner 1960:172 on heteromorphic and homeomorphic reciprocity

Foster 1990 and Strathern 1987 on relations of contrast rather than their mensurability

Bourdieu 1977:5 on the role of time 

Marshall 1985 and Werbner 1990 on the role of inflation

[source: The Alchemy of Charity: Of Class and Buddhism in Northern Thailand, Katherine A. Bowie, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 100, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 469-481


  • The Trobriand Islands (1915)
  • Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922)
  • Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)
  • Crime and Custom in Savage Society (1926)
  • Sex and Repression in Savage Society (1927)
  • The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929)
  • Coral Gardens and their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands (1935)
  • A Scientific Theory of Culture (1944)
  • Freedom & Civilization (1944)
  • The Dynamics of Culture Change (1945)
  • Magic, Science, and Religion (1948)
  • A Diary In the Strict Sense of the Term (1967)