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Events on Saturday 16 May 1942 1
1884 – 1942Bronisław Malinowski (1884-1942)Died 16 May 1942, aged 58Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish-born anthropologist who established participant-observation fieldwork as the core method of social anthropology. His research in the Trobriand Islands produced Argonauts of the Western Pacific. He died in New Haven, Connecticut.