Malinowski's Kiriwina

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316 pages 1998

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A note on orthography -- "Trobriand Islands" by Bronislaw Malinowski -- Samarai, "gate to the field" -- Picturing the ethnographer -- Touluwa, chief of Omarakana -- Coral gardens and their harvests -- Dancing at Milamala -- "Physical types" and "personalities" -- "Magic" -- Fishing and canoes of the lagoon -- "Village scenes" -- Women's domain -- "The children's republic" -- Mortuary rites and exchanges -- Masawa canoes and the kula quest -- "Black and white" -- Appendix 1 : Malinowski’s photographic equipment -- Appendix 2 : the numbering of the collection.

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