Abstract
The MFEA project aims to study the works and lives of Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson, focusing on their presence in South Tyrol. The research project investigates the many issues of the Malinowski-Masson collaboration and the role of the thier private social network, which includes students and academics but also relatives and friends, in the rise of collective ideas and shared life styles that contributed to the development of science, ethnography and anthropology.