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Introductionessay 1983 • Leach, Jerry W.
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
In this article Leach updates Malinowski's material on the Kula as presented in his 'Argonauts of the Western Pacific' (see 1: Malinowksi). Leach does this first by reporting on the changes that have taken place in this institution since Malinowski's...Trobriand territorial categories and the problem of who is not in the kulaessay 1983 • Leach, Jerry W.
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
Previous publications on the Trobriands have treated territorial classification systems as if they were all on the same order. In this paper, Leach proposes to break this unified classification down into five separate systems that he refers to as 'su...Socio-historical conflict and the Kabisawali movement in the Trobriand Islandsessay 1982 • Leach, Jerry W.
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This document is based on sixteen months of fieldwork and five months of archival research between the years 1969-1974. The specific time focus of this work, however, is from January 1972, at the beginning of the Kabisawali movement activities, and e...Kula on Kitavaessay 1983 • Scoditti, Giancarlo M. G. & Leach, Jerry W.
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
After a brief introduction presenting an excellent culture summary of Kitava ethnography, Scoditti describes in detail variations in Kula practices as observed within the three major regions of the island -- Kumwagea, Lalela, and Okabulula. General p...