Bronislaw Malinowski

Coral gardens and their magic

A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands. Volumen One - The Description of Gardening

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Severus
• Überarb. Neuaufl. oder hochwertiger Nachdruck eines Werkes vor 1945
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 157mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 922g
• ISBN-13: 9783863476465
• ISBN-10: 3863476468
• Artikelnr.: 39202306

Inhaltsangabe

Part IV: An ethnographic theory of language and some practical corollaries; Div. I. Language as tool, document and cultural reality; Div. II. The translation of untranslatable words; Div. III. The context of words and the context of facts; Div. IV. The pragmatic setting of utterances; Div. V. Meaning as function of words; Div. VI. The sources of meaning in the speech of infants; Div. VII. Gaps, gluts and vagaries of a native terminology; Part V: Corpus inscriptionum agriculturae quiriviniensis; or the language of gardens; Division I Land and gardens; Division II The crops; Division III The crops: staple produce of the gardens; Division IV The crops: trees and plants of the village grove; Division v the social and cultural setting of trobriand agriculture; Division VI The technique and outfit of agriculture; Division VII Magic; Division VIII Inaugurative magical ceremonies; Division IX Magic of growth; Division X The magic of harvest and of plenty; Division XI A Few texts relating to garden magic; Division XII The terminology of the legal and economic aspects of gardening; Part VI: An ethnographic theory of the magical word; Div. I. The meaning of meaningless words; Div. II. Coefficient of weirdness in the language of magic; Div. III. Digression on the theory of magical language; Div. IV. Coefficient of intelligibility; Div. V. Digression on the general theory of magical language; Div. VI. The sociological function of magic as another source of intelligibility of spells; Part VII: Magical formulae