Book
Argonauts of the western Pacific: an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. • London • Published In 1922 • Pages:
By: Malinowski, Bronislaw.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Kula, a system of ceremonial exchange in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea, is the subject of this monograph. Malinowski describes the ethnography of the entire Massim region (of which the Trobriands are only a part), religion and magic in the Trobriands (especially in connection with the Kula), precise rules and aspects of the Kula, construction and navigation of different types of canoes, different kinds of Kula expeditions, mythology of the Kula, the articles used in the Kula exchange, and linguistic aspects of Kula magic.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gift giving
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Trobriands
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eugene Lerner
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1914-1920
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1914-1920
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Bronislaw Malinowski
- Includes index and bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders