Argonauts of the western Pacific; an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (1922)
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 · London, G. Routledge & Sons, ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 122
ngs, but above all forsorcerers and witches. The spirits migrate immediately afterdeath to the island of Tuma, lying in the North-West of Boyowa,and there they exist for another span of time, underground,say some, on the surface of the earth, though invisible, sayothers. They return to visit their… … > Q 5-S THE TROBRIAND ISLANDS 73 and in general the spirits do not influence human beings verymuch, for better or worse.* In a number of magical formulae,there is an invocation of ancestral spirits, and they receiveofferings in several rites. But there is nothing of the mutualinteraction, of the…
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