The people of the Trobriand Islands are mostly subsistence horticulturalists who live in traditional settlements. The social structure is based on matrilineal...
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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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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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Argonauts of the Western Pacific (category Trobriand Islands)
had enormous impact on the ethnographic genre. The book is about the Trobriand people who live on the small Kiriwana island chain northeast of the island...
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Sagan criticised Malinowski for thinking that "he had discovered a people in the Trobriand Islands who had not worked out the connection between sexual intercourse...
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Kilivila language (category Trobriand Islands)
languages (of the Austronesian language family), spoken by the Trobriand people of the Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea). It is used in local schools. Phonology...
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and protection of the female and her offspring. For example, in the Trobriand tribe, men give women gifts in exchange for sexual access. From this hypothesis...
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Bronisław Malinowski (category Trobriand Islands)
documents. In 1914, he travelled to Australia. He conducted research in the Trobriand Islands and other regions in New Guinea and Melanesia where he stayed...
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Urapmin Wiru Wola Wopkaimin Yaifo Zia Baining Tolai Trobriand Girls from Papua New Guinea Papuan people in folk dress in Jakarta Newly married Kayu Batu...
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Philippe Régis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand (June 4, 1816 – July 15, 1897) was a Breton aristocrat, lawyer, poet, and novelist who, on a dare, emigrated...
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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)
Account of Courtship, Marriage, and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea is a 1929 book by anthropologist Bronisław...
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"The serpent's children: semiotics of cultural genesis in Arawak and Trobriand myth." – American ethnologist (Washington) 8 (3): 633-660. "Drummond tells...
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Kula ring (category Trobriand Islands)
region. Whereas on the Trobriand Islands the exchange is monopolised by the chiefs, in Dobu there are between 100 and 150 people involved in Kula trade...
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Violette Morris (category French people of Arab descent)
while having dinner with friends and neighbors Robert and Simone de Trobriand at a restaurant in Neuilly, the trio encountered a drunk and aggressive...
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Kiriwina (category Trobriand Islands)
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 of the 12,000 people who...
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the Mongo people by the Database for Indigenous Cultural Evolution at the University of Missouri. Bronisław Malinowski wrote about the Trobriand Islands...
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spirituality Fore traditional beliefs Kaluli religion Korowai religion Trobriand traditional beliefs Urapmin traditional beliefs Micronesian religion Carolinian...
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Kiriwina Island clashes (category Trobriand Islands)
part of the Trobriand Islands chain of Papua New Guinea. The violence was the deadliest in Kiriwina history, and saw over thirty people killed. Under...
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Allen Hardie, asked de Trobriand how they could be certain of the number, age, sex, and condition of the people killed, de Trobriand responded that "Baker...
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with many people, different sexual relations may be prohibited for different reasons, and with different penalties. For example, Trobriand Islanders prohibit...
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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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including New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville, the Admiralty Islands, the Trobriand Islands, and the Louisiade Archipelago, were never linked to New Guinea...
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this "potlatch type" of gift economy include the Kula ring found in the Trobriand Islands.: 188–208 Competitive altruism Conspicuous consumption Guy Debord...
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Eipo men from Western New Guinea were more likely to be senders, while Trobriand men from Papua New Guinea were more likely to be receivers. Across all...
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Jean François Denis de Keredern de Trobriand (Plouigneau, 29 January 1730 – Brest, 18 February 1780) was a French Navy officer. He notably served during...
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Fergusson Islands.[citation needed] The waters from the Amphlett group to the Trobriand Islands are poorly charted, and, as a result, are rarely visited by tourists...
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William P. Perry (redirect from Trobriand Music Company)
in the Trobriand catalogue. Included among these are William David Brohn, Richard Hayman, Peter Breiner, Donald Sosin and Robert Nowak. Trobriand has also...
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Forms of cricket (section Trobriand cricket)
of hitting with a bat. It is a peculiar form of cricket played in the Trobriand Islands, in Papua New Guinea. Although cricket was introduced by the British...
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Strait Islands, politically divided between Australia and Papua New Guinea Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea Woodlark Island, Papua New Guinea Yapen Islands...
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