Question

In a letter, this scholar said that “whenever we start with Dead Things and Skeletons we are wrong.” This thinker advocated instead to “find beauty in a living human body and not in a skeleton or at best in a Marble” in that letter to the thinker Elsie Masson. This thinker’s racism and sexual approaches to his subjects were revealed in a pair of journals posthumously published as A (*) Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. (-5[1])A two-volume book by this thinker analyses the use of “formulae,” or “spells,” in raising taro. Marcel Mauss questioned this functionalist’s discussion (10[1])of a freely given pure gift in the context of a Melanesian exchange system called the Kula ring. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Polish-British anthropologist, who wrote about (10[1])the people of the Trobriand Islands in Coral Gardens and Their Magic and Argonauts of the Western Pacific. ■END■

ANSWER: Bronisław (Kasper) Malinowski
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew HartBHSUOur Job is Buzz76-5
Chinmay KansaradoubleplusnegfiveJeff Weiner Fan Club9810
Sharath NarayanPalestrina SawayamaWeird Klaus Barbie11610
Shardul RaoOur Job is BuzzBHSU12610

Summary

2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%0%33%113.33