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The article offers brief profile of Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, founders of modern sociocultural Anthropology. It mentions his doctorate in philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and another study visit in Leipzig Malinowski was drawn to British social anthropology and he completed a post-graduate education at the London School of Economics. It also mentions research generally relies on desk studies that explorers, material collected by missionaries and colonial administrators.

The article reports on relationship networks, ethnological, and historical perspectives on South Tyrolean mountain farmers. Topics discussed include the American Cultural anthropologists on the Alps in the 1960s and 1970s, research on geographically isolated mountain farmers, historical development and documentation, and the individual farms in a time of agricultural political and economic upheaval photographed in the 1960s.