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 65
ty with the endeavours andambitions of these natives. Perhaps mans mentality willbe revealed to us, and brought near, along some lines whichwe never have followed before. Perhaps through realisinghuman nature in a shape very distant and foreign to us, weshall have some light shed on our own. In… … Chapter I THE COUNTRY AND INHABITANTS OF THE KULADISTRICT The tribes who live within the sphere of the Kula system oftrading belong, one and all—with the exception perhaps, ofthe Rossel Island natives, of whom we know next to nothing—to the same racial group. These tribes inhabit the eastern-most…
Ethnology · Barter · Folklore · Magic
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