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Wood carving of a traditional yam store in the Trobriand Islands. At the beginning of the yam harvest, the yams stay on display in gardens for about a month before the gardener takes them to the owner. The owner is always a woman. There is a ceremony for this. The yams are loaded into the woman's husband's empty yam house.
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.
The Trobriand Islands are mentioned in the [[paranormal romance novel The Werewolf in the North Woods by Vicki Lewis Thompson. The Trobriand Islands are mentioned in the human sexuality book Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá. The Trobriand Islands are mentioned in Ian McEwan's 2019 novel Machines Like Me.
The Tabalu of Kiriwina located in the Trobriand Islands practice a form of agriculture called Kaylu'ebila, a form of garden magic. [16] The main crop for the Tabalu is the yam and there is a definite division of labour according to sex when it comes to gardening.
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.
The Kula ring spans 18 island communities of the Massim archipelago, including the Trobriand Islands, and involves thousands of individuals. [3] Participants travel at times hundreds of miles by canoe in order to exchange Kula valuables, which consist of red shell-disc necklaces (veigun or soulava) that are traded to the north (circling the ring in clockwise direction) and white shell armbands ...
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His researches among the Trobriand Islanders during the years 1916-18 yielded a series of epochal volumes which revolutionized the content and practice of anthropology. [ 11 ] Today, Argonauts of the Western Pacific is the archetypal account of anthropologists' "following the people" method of collecting information for a multi-sited ethnography.