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Magical Tome

Cover of Malinowski's Kiriwina
First published
1998
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Pages
316 pages
ISBN
9780226876504

Malinowski's Kiriwina

The outer archives are busy

by Michael W. Young

Adventure

About this book

A note on orthography -- "Trobriand Islands" by Bronislaw Malinowski -- Samarai, "gate to the field" -- Picturing the ethnographer -- Touluwa, chief of Omarakana -- Coral gardens and their harvests -- Dancing at Milamala -- "Physical types" and "personalities" -- "Magic" -- Fishing and canoes of the lagoon -- "Village scenes" -- Women's domain -- "The children's republic" -- Mortuary rites and exchanges -- Masawa canoes and the kula quest -- "Black and white" -- Appendix 1 : Malinowski’s photographic equipment -- Appendix 2 : the numbering of the collection.

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