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 CompanyNew 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.
Subjects
Speech
Tillage
Literary texts
Magic
culture
Trobriands
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