The Trobriand Islands are a 450-square-kilometre (174-square-mile) archipelago of coral atolls off the east coast of New Guinea. They are part of the...
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The people of the Trobriand Islands are mostly subsistence horticulturalists who live in traditional settlements. Their social structure is based on matrilineal...
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Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism is an anthropological Documentary film about the people of the Trobriand Islands and their unique...
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Trobriand cricket refers to a unique version of the bat-and-ball sport cricket played by the Trobriand Islanders. They were first exposed to the game by...
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The Trobriand Islands rain forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southeastern Papua New Guinea. The islands of this ecoregion have...
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Solomon Islands archipelago (northern part) Bougainville Buka Island Trobriand Islands Kiriwina Woodlark Island D'Entrecasteaux Islands Fergusson Island Goodenough...
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Papua New Guinea Woodlark Island Solomon Islands Louisiade Archipelago Coral Sea Basin Trobriand Plate W. P. Woodlark Basin S. P...
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Bronisław Malinowski (category Trobriand Islands)
In 1914, he travelled to Australia. He conducted research in the Trobriand Islands and other regions in New Guinea and Melanesia where he stayed for...
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government agreed to give independence to Bougainville in 2027. In the Trobriand Islands, intertribal warfare was banned during Australian colonial rule and...
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Kula ring (category Trobriand Islands)
traced the network of exchanges of bracelets and necklaces across the Trobriand Islands, and established that they were part of a system of exchange (the...
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Labia stretching (category Culture of the Marquesas Islands)
the University of Missouri. Bronisław Malinowski wrote about the Trobriand Islands in The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia: The body...
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began with Bronisław Malinowski's description of the Kula ring in the Trobriand Islands during World War I. The Kula trade appeared to be gift-like since...
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1949 of indigenous parentage in Okaikoda Village on Kiriwina Island of the Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. He was originally...
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Brumer Islands Baliabedabeda Bonarua Halioya Deirina Trobriand Islands Kiriwina Kaileuna Vakuta Kitava D'Entrecasteaux Islands Fergusson Island Goodenough...
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violence broke out between the Kuboma and Kulumata on Kiriwina Island, part of the Trobriand Islands chain of Papua New Guinea. The violence was the deadliest...
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The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (redirect from The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia: An Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage, and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea)
of Courtship, Marriage, and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea is a 1929 book by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski...
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pioneered by Bronisław Malinowski's process-oriented fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands of Melanesia between 1915 and 1918 and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's theoretical...
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Coral Gardens and Their Magic (redirect from Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands)
the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands and Coral Gardens and Their Magic Volume II: The Language of Magic...
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involved studies of logic in legal discourse among people of the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. For a time he worked in the Navy doing research...
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Milne Bay Province (section Islands)
and other islands Kiriwina-Goodenough District: Goodenough Island and Trobriand Islands Samarai-Murua District: Samarai, Engineer Islands, Louisiade...
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Papua New Guinea (category Island countries)
of the other islands within PNG territory, including New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville, the Admiralty Islands, the Trobriand Islands, and the Louisiade...
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Royal United Service Institution Vol. XII 1868 NO. LI. Working in the Trobriand Islands (just off Australia) around the time of WWI, the renowned Anthropologist...
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for his autograph. At the beach in polyandrous Kiriwina, one of the Trobriand Islands in New Guinea, a large crowd of topless native women run after a handful...
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development. The anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski's studies of the Trobriand islanders challenged the Freudian proposal that psychosexual development...
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific (category Trobriand Islands)
ethnographic genre. The book is about the Trobriand people who live on the small Kiriwana island chain northeast of the island of New Guinea. It is part of Malinowski's...
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collection of the UK's Imperial War Museum. In 1922, Silas sailed for the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea as artist for a three-year expedition. Many of...
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Kiriwina (redirect from Kiriwina Island)
Kiriwina is the largest of the Trobriand Islands, with an area of 290.5 km2 (112.2 sq mi). It is part of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Most...
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traced the network of exchanges of bracelets and necklaces across the Trobriand Islands and established that they were part of a system of inter-tribal exchange:...
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Malinowski's fieldsite in the Trobriand Islands. Publishing in 1992, her critique was twofold: Weiner first noted that Trobriand Island society has a matrilineal...
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It lies to the east of mainland New Guinea and southwest of the Trobriand Islands. It is roughly circular in shape, measuring 39 by 26 kilometres (24...
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