Coral gardens and their magic
Subtitle: a study of the methods of tilling the soil and of agricultural rites in the Trobriand Islands.
Publisher: American Book Co.
Published: 1935
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Gardening -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands.; Magic.; Kiriwinian language.; Language and languages.; Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)
Table of contents: title: v.1. Introduction: Tribal economics and social organisation of the Trobrianders. Gardens and their magic on a coral atoll. Documents and appendices.; title: v.2. An ethnographic theory of language and some practical corollaries. Corpus inscriptionum agriculturae quiriviniensis; or, The language of gardens. An ethnographic theory of the magical word. Magical formulae.