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 45
STREET OF KASANAM (IN KIRIWINA. TROBRIAND ISLANDS). An every dav scene, showing groups of people at their ordinary occupations.(SeeDivs. IV and VIII.) PLATE IV … SCENE IN YOURAWOTU (TROBRIANDS). A complex, but well-defined, act of a sagali (ceremonial distribution) is goingon. There is a definite system of sociological, economic and ceremonial principlesat the bottom of the apparently confused proceedings. (See Divs. IV. and V.) SUBJECT, METHOD AND SCOPE 7…
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