ABSTRACT
One of the few anthropologists who escaped this fate of expertise and reached into the social sciences without compromising the integrity of his own area was the late Bronislaw Malinowski. What remains is to examine Malinowski's approach as a method of research distinguishing the anthropologist or sociologist from the missionary or tourist. This point is particularly evident throughout Crime and Custom. The most complex aspect of Malinowski's theoretical system is his highly refined view of institutions. Precision is of the utmost importance, since what is at stake for Malinowski is the logical inclusiveness and empirical coefficients of such terms as "culture," "society," and "individual." While Malinowski tended sharply to adopt the "ideological standpoint" of the natives and their culture against all foreign importations, he recognized the difference in substance between social and cultural changes. It might be reasoned that a separate discussion of Malinowski's position on the scope and method of anthropology has been obviated by the foregoing remarks.
