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When a Trobriand couple want to marry, they show their interest by sleeping together, spending time together, and staying with each other for several weeks. The girl's parents approve of the couple when a girl accepts a gift from a boy. After that, the girl moves to the boy's house, eats her meals there, and accompanies her husband all day.
Soul boat, Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands (wood and white lime) The first European visitor to the islands was the French ship Espérance in 1793. The ship's navigator, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, named them after his first lieutenant, Denis de Trobriand.
The book discussed sexuality in matrilineal society, debunking some myths about sexual promiscuity of primitive people. It has also contributed to scientific study of sex, previously restricted due to Euro-American prudery and views on morality; something that has been attributed to Malinowski's Slavic Catholic cultural background which made him less concerned with "Anglo-Saxon Puritanism".
Weiner conducted extensive fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands, producing rich ethnographic accounts and analyses that stand as her most enduring contributions to the field. Her dissertation studied the contribution of women to the economy of Trobriand society, which had been the site of Bronislaw Malinowski's renowned studies of the Kula exchange.
In a brief passage in his 1979 book Broca's Brain, the late science populariser Carl 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 and childbirth", arguing that it was more likely that the islanders were simply making fun of ...
On October 25, 2022, 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 in Kiriwina history, and saw over thirty people killed. [1]
The film opens in pre-1938 Adelaide, where Phillip Spence (Donovan) is lecturing a graduate class in anthropology. He hopes to enlarge on the work of Malinowski with a multi-year field study of a Trobriand Island community, whose matrilineal culture encourages pre-marital sex. He needs his star student Evelyn, who has a gift for languages, to ...
Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea: Patrilocal Matrilineal Bronisław Malinowski: 1916 Bribri: North America: Costa Rica: Matrilocal Matrilineal William More Gabb: 1875 Bunt: Asia: India: Patrilocal Matrilineal E Kathleen Gough: 1954 Chamorro: Oceania: Guam and Mariana Islands: Matrilineal Guampedia: Cherokee: North America: United States ...