英国功能主义学派一直以来都是人类学界的重要理论流派,功能学派的两位带头人都为人类学做出了巨大的贡献。马林诺夫斯基和和拉德克利夫布朗都与中国学者有很好的交流,其学术思想对中国人类学届有很大的影响。总所周知,马氏和布朗的观点上有分歧,本文着重讨论马氏的文化功能论,通过《西太平洋的航海者》、《江村经济》、 The British functionalist school has long been an important theoretical school of anthropology, and both leaders of the functionalist school have made tremendous contributions to anthropology. Both Malinowski and Radcliffe Brown have had good exchanges with Chinese scholars, and their academic ideas have had a great influence on the Chinese anthropology. As we all know, there are disagreements on the viewpoint of Markov and Brown. This article focuses on Markov’s theory of cultural function. Through the “voyagers of the Western Pacific”, “Eurakami economy”