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Anthropology Seminar talk: introduction to the following topic: What made the Nuer the prototype structural-functional monograph that it is usually considered to have been? Background: What is structural-functionalism and how did it start? Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown are viewed as the founders of Functionalism. Together they changed the shift in British anthropology, rejecting the evolutionary view and moved away from the speculative historical to the ahistorical study of social institutions. The focus was on analysing societies here and now. However, Malinowski's & Radcliffe-Brown's approaches were dramatically different from each other: Malinowski's functionalism concentrated on the individual needs and de-emphasized the social system as having a reason of existence beyond that of the individual. Malinowski's simplistic theory stated that the function of social structure is to satisfy biological, psychological and other human needs and cultural institutions are direct expressions of these human needs. For example, hunting and gathering is performed in some cultures to fulfil the biological need...

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