Book
Coral gardens and their magic: a study of the methods of tilling the soil and of agricultural rites in the Trobriand Islands. Vol. two, The language of magic and gardening
American Book Company • New York • Published In 1935 • Pages:
By: Malinowski, Bronislaw.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work, volume two of two, supplements to cultural data of volume one. It consists of native texts on garden magic, including texts on magical spells and their linguistic and sociological analysis. The book contains information on an ethnographic theory of language, the language of gardens, an ethnographic theory of the magical word, and magical formulae. The texts and analyses of magical spells have been indexed for category 128.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Speech
- Tillage
- Literary texts
- Magic
- 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
- not specified
- 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
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders