Coral Gardens and Their Magic: The Description of Gardening [1935]The first part of a two volume classic devoted to the agriculture and agricultural rites of the Trobriand Islanders. This work looks at the signigicance of agriculture in the Trobriand Islands. |
Contents
Specialisation in fishing and agriculture The fishing villages of the northern coast | |
Luya Kavataria and its fishermen Fishing in the coral outcrops An ancestral | |
General account of gardening | |
centre of interest Training the vines round poles Protection of the gardens from | |
early work and inaugurative magic | |
preparing the soil and planting the seed | |
The customary law of harvest gifts | |
The work and magic of prosperity | |
Structure and construction of the bwayma | |
LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY Pp 257259 | |
A comparative glance at trobriand gardening | |
ceremony in the sacred grove of Ovavavile and its spell The kayaku First | |
The cultivation of taro palms and bananas | |
The method of fieldwork and the invisible facts of native law and economics XII Land tenure | |
Other editions - View all
Coral Gardens and Their Magic: The Description of Gardening [1935] Bronislaw Malinowski Limited preview - 2013 |
Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil ... Bronislaw Malinowski No preview available - 1935 |
Coral Gardens and Their Magic: The Description of Gardening, 1935 Malinowski,TAYLOR & FRANCIS No preview available - 2010 |
Common terms and phrases
agriculture anchored arbour Bagido'u baleko banana baskets begone belly betel-nut brother bush-pig bwayma called canoe ceremony Chapter charm clan coconut coral crops cultivated dayma Diags digging-stick distribution district economic fish FORMULA garden magic garden magician garden plot gardening team harvest gift headman heap herbs household important inaugural island Kabwaku kamkokola kayaku kayasa Kiriwina kuvi Kwaybwaga land tenure large yams leaves leywota liku log cabin marriage matrilineal Milamala Mitakata moon natives Oburaku Omarakana organisation palm pandanus paramount chief patrilocal performed planting PLATE produce rank rayboag ridge pole rite ritual roof round season seen Sinaketa sister sociological soil spell sprout sticks stone storehouse sub-clan Tabalu taboo taro taro gardens taytu To'uluwa towosi tree Trobriands trumpet shell tubers Tudava urigubu usually Vakuta vilamalia vine Wakayse weeding whole wife wild ginger Woodlark Island yam-house yams