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As part of Papua New Guinea, the Trobriant Islands are located in a bordering sea of the Pacific Ocean. At the beginning of the 20th century the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski was one of the first to explore the archipelago in the South Sea and ist inhabitants. In the context of his work he discovered that Freund s psychoanalytic universality thesis regarding the Oedipus complex is not true for the islanders.§In this first volume out of three, Malinowsky deals with the tribal economics and social organizations as well as the trobriandan gardening techniques and the magic within this kind of work.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Coral gardens and their magic
• Subtitle: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands: With 3 Maps, 116 Illustrations and 24 Figures. Volumen One - The Description of Gardening
• Author: Bronislaw Malinowsky
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 610
• EAN: 9783863476465
• ISBN: 3863476468
• ID: 02066193
• Publisher: Severus
• Weight: 828 g
• Dimensions: 149 × 210 × 41 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. September 2013

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