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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1995
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Melanesia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Eugene Lerner
- Field Date
- 1914-1920
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Papua New Guinea
- Notes
- [by] Bronislaw Malinowski
- Includes index
- LCSH
- Trobriand Islanders