《文化论》是马林洛夫斯基关于文化功能派的重要著述。梳理该书的主要理论思想和方法,重新认识他的“功能观”。在该书中,他指出一个社会及其文化是一个统一的不可分割的整体,有自己的结构,各种社会制度是整体的组成部分,各部分各具功能,互相联系,互相制约。即在各文化事实相互关联的动态整体中的相互作用,并通过这种作用所体现的、相对于文化整体而言的价值及意义以及总体。 Cultural Theory is an important work by Malinovski on cultural functionalists. Sort out the book’s main theoretical ideas and methods, to re-recognize his “functional concept.” In this book, he pointed out that a society and its culture are a united and indivisible whole, have their own structure, and various social systems are part of the whole. Each of them has its own function, interconnection and mutual restraint. That is, the interaction in the dynamic whole with the interrelated cultural facts and the value and meaning as well as the overall expression relative to the cultural whole as embodied in this role.