The Sexual Life of a Polish Anthropologist

The Age reviews a new biography of Bronislaw Malinowski. Seems like a good read if you want to know all the intimate details of the great man (I’m not sure I do):

Young has painstakingly researched the fragmentary accounts of Malinowski’s illness-dominated childhood and family relations. An inveterate diarist from an early age, and a prodigious letter writer, Malinowski soon provided his biographer with an obsessively detailed account of his friendships, love life, travels with his mother, inner angst and what he referred to as the “rut and debauch” of his student life in bohemian Cracow.

P. Kerim Friedman is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures at National Dong Hwa University, in Taiwan, where he teaches linguistic and visual anthropology. He is co-director of the film Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!, winner of the 2011 Jean Rouch Award from the Society of Visual Anthropology. Follow Kerim on Twitter.