ISBN:
9780415090940
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xxviii, 473 p)
,
ill., maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Print version Argonauts of the Western Pacific : An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
DDC:
305.80099541
Schlagwort(e):
Barter
;
Folklore
;
Ethnology
;
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
;
Quelle
;
Quelle
;
Trobriand-Inseln
;
Kula
;
Ethnologie
;
Geschichte 1914-1920
Kurzfassung:
MY esteemed friend, Dr. B.Malinowski has asked me to write a preface to hisbook, and I willingly comply with his request, though I can hardly think that anywords of mine will add to the value of the remarkable record of anthropologicalresearch which he has given us in this volume. My observations, such as they are,will deal partly with the writer's method and partly with the matter of his book
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; PREFACE; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION THE SUBJECT, METHOD AND SCOPE OF THIS INQUIRY; CHAPTER I THE COUNTRY AND INHABITANTS OF THE KULA DISTRICT; CHAPTER II THE NATIVES OF THE TROBRIAND ISLANDS; CHAPTER III THE ESSENTIALS OF THE KULA; CHAPTER IV CANOES AND SAILING; CHAPTER V THE CEREMONIAL BUILDING OF A WAGA; CHAPTER VI LAUNCHING OF A CANOE AND CEREMONIAL VISITING-TRIBAL ECONOMICS IN THE TROBRIANDS; CHAPTER VII THE DEPARTURE OF AN OVERSEAS EXPEDITION
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
CHAPTER VIII THE FIRST HALT OF THE FLEET ON MUWACHAPTER IX SAILING ON THE SEA-ARM OF PILOLU; CHAPTER X THE STORY OF SHIPWRECK; CHAPTER XI IN THE AMPHLETTS-SOCIOLOGY OF THE KULA; CHAPTER XII IN TEWARA AND SANAROA-MYTHOLOGY OF THE KULA; CHAPTER XIII ON THE BEACH OF SARUBWOYNA; CHAPTER XIV THE KULA IN DOBU-TECHNICALITIES OF THE EXCHANGE; CHAPTER XV THE JOURNEY HOME-THE FISHING AND WORKING OF THE KALOMA SHELL; CHAPTER XVI THE RETURN VISIT OF THE DOBUANS TO SINAKETA; CHAPTER XVII MAGIC AND THE KULA; CHAPTER XVIII THE POWER OF WORDS IN MAGIC-SOME LINGUISTIC DATA
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
CHAPTER XIX THE INLAND KULACHAPTER XX EXPEDITIONS BETWEEN KIRIWINA AND KITAVA; CHAPTER XXI THE REMAINING BRANCHES AND OFFSHOOTS OF THE KULA; CHAPTER XXII THE MEANING OF THE KULA; INDEX
Anmerkung:
Includes index
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Originally published in 1922
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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