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Argonauts of the western PacificBook 1922 • Malinowski, Bronislaw
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
The Kula, a system of ceremonial exchange in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea, is the subject of this monograph. Malinowski describes the ethnography of the entire Massim region (of which the Trobriands are only a part), religion and magic in th...Coral gardens and their magicBook 1935 • Malinowski, Bronislaw
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This work, volume one of two, contains detailed accounts of gardening technique, land tenure systems, and magic for gardens. Omarakana gardens are presented as the norm of Trobriand agriculture, and the rest of the Islands and areas are compared and ...Coral gardens and their magicBook 1935 • Malinowski, Bronislaw
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
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 ...Crime and custom in savage societyBook 1926 • Malinowski, Bronislaw
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
In this book Malinowski argues that primitive law depends on practical considerations of reciprocity for its enforcement rather than on tradition or group pressure. Malinowski points out that even the most rigidly proscribed actions (incest, endogamy...The sexual life of savages in northwestern MelanesiaBook 1929 • Malinowski, Bronislaw
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
Malinowski treats the subject of sexuality extensively from the sex play of childhood to mortuary rites, and from personal love intrigues to the web of social relations exemplified by familial and community ties. Throughout the book, Malinowski stres...Balomaarticle 1916 • Malinowski, Bronislaw
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This article deals with the spirits of the dead, the BALOMA, in Kiriwina Island and covers the following subjects: mortuary practices, witches, beliefs regarding life after death and reincarnation, relations between BALOMA and the living, return of t...Kulaarticle 1920 • Malinowski, Bronislaw
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This article is concerned with the Kula exchange in the Trobriand Islands in particular and the district of the Massim in general. Malinowski covers briefly the essentials of this system of exchange....The primitive economics of the Trobriand Islandersarticle 1921 • Malinowski, Bronislaw
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This article deals with the economic life of the Trobriand Islanders and covers the following subjects: natural resources, fishing, gardening, crafts and industries, land tenure, chieftainship, wealth and objects of wealth, magic and magicians in rel...War and weapons among the natives of the Trobriand Islandsarticle 1920 • Malinowski, Bronislaw
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This article is concerned with warfare and weapons of the Trobriand Islanders, and in particular of the main island, Bwoiowa (Boyowa or Kiriwina), a number of whose districts were at war with each other before the British took control. Malinowski dis...Stone implements in eastern New Guineaessay 1934 • Malinowski, Bronislaw
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This brief essay is concerned with stone ax and adze blades made and used in the Massim Archipelago and particularly in the Trobriand Islands. Subjects included are quarrying and importation into the Trobriands of the raw materials, shaping and polis...Sex and repression in savage societyBook 1927 • Malinowski, Bronislaw
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
In this book Malinowski applies the psychoanalytic method to a non-European people, the Trobriand Islanders. Malinowski concludes that the Oedipus complex as found among the Europeans does not exist here. Rather, it is in a sense, split; the ambivale...Myth in primitive psychologyBook 1926 • Malinowski, Bronislaw
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
Malinowski examines the function of myth among the Trobrianders in this monograph. The role of myth in sanctioning the existing socio-political structure is discussed. The relationship of magic to insecurity is examined in detail. In short, Malinowsk...