Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Trobriand Islands and the Trobrianders' sexual mores are mentioned in the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley as the basis for the sexual morality that exists in the book's dystopian society. The Trobriand Islands are mentioned in the Circle of Friends (1995 film)
Kiriwina is the largest of the Trobriand Islands, with an area of 290.5 km 2 (112.2 sq mi). [1] It is part of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Most of the 12,000 people who live in the Trobriands live on Kiriwina. The Kilivila language, also known as Kiriwina, is spoken on the island. The main town is Losuia.
The Trobriand plate was, and likely is, an independent microplate between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It has some unique geology, having the presence of the youngest metamorphic core complexes on earth. If there is presently active subduction between it and the Solomon Sea plate, at the Trobriand Trough, it continues to be an active ...
The term "Trobriand" itself is not Kilivilan: the islands take this name from the French explorer Jean François Sylvestre Denis de Trobriand who visited in 1793. [2] Malinowski in the Trobriands. Drawing upon earlier work by Bronisław Malinowski, Dorothy D. Lee's scholarly writings refer to "non-lineal codifications of reality". In such a ...
The 1929 map of the Trobriand Islands shows five villages on Kayleuna. Kaileuna is an island in the Trobriand Islands group of Papua New Guinea. With an area of 45.53 km 2, it is the second-largest island in the group, after Kiriwina. [1] As of the census of the population of 2000, there were 1,908 people living on the island, in five villages:
Coral Gardens and Their Magic, properly Coral Gardens and Their Magic Volume I: A Study of 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 and Gardening, is the final two-volume book in anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski's ethnographic trilogy on the lives of the Trobriand Islanders.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more