Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942. Coral gardens and their magic: a study of the methods of tilling the soil and of agricultural rites in the Trobriand Islands. Vol. one, The description of gardening

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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942

Title: Coral gardens and their magic: a study of the methods of tilling the soil and of agricultural rites in the Trobriand Islands. Vol. one, The description of gardening

Published By: Original publisher New York: American Book Company. 1935. xxxv, 500 p., plates ill., maps

By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication [by] Bronislaw Malinowski

HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files, 1995. Computer File

Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis. Trobriands (OL06)

Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF Tillage (241); Real property (423); Magic (789);

Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document 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 contrasted with it.

Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents 2

Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits. ol06-002

Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs. Monograph

Language: Language that the document is written in English

Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document 1914-1920

Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data Ethnologist--5

Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection. Frank W. Moore

Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date). 1914-1920

Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site) Papua New Guinea

LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings Trobriand Islanders