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Procreation among the Trobriand Islandersarticle 1934 • Austen, Leo
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
In this article, Mr. Austen discusses the sexual-physiological knowledge and beliefs of the Trobrianders, with particular stress upon their ideas of conception, pregnancy, and heredity. In doing so, he throws further light on one of the more interest...The seasonal gardening calendar of Kiriwina, Trobriand Islandsarticle 1939 • Austen, Leo
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This article contains a discussion of the Trobriand method of ordering time and its relationship to gardening. The inefficiency of Trobriand time-reckoning for horticultural purposes is clearly brought out. Information on the astronomical knowledge o...Native handicrafts in the Trobriand Islandsarticle 1945 • Austen, Leo
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This article is a summary outline of Trobriand handicrafts. The apprenticeship of a child in one of the handicraft professions is described, and there is considerable discussion of the effects of European contact upon native technological skill....Botabaluarticle 1940 • Austen, Leo
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This article consists mainly of the text of a chief's proclamation lifting the taboo on a sacred spring. The proclamation summarizes the legendary origin of the sacredness of this spring and gives the reason for the lifting of the taboo. The opening ...The Trobriand Islands of Papuaarticle 1936 • Austen, Leo
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This article contains information on the geographical features of the Trobriand Islands. Climate, soils, topography, flora and fauna are discussed in some detail. The history of European contacts with the Trobrianders is presented....Cultural changes in Kiriwinaarticle 1945 • Austen, Leo
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
Leo Austen, a former Resident Magistrate of the territory of Papua, New Guinea, presents in this article a summary of Trobriand ethnography as he observed it on Kiriwina Island during the early 1930s (1931-1936). The material is written from the stan...