The Trobriand Islanders

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The Trobriand Islanders

• By
• Kelley Clark, Stephanie Milsap, Heather Archer,
  Michelle Broyles

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The Trobriand Islanders

• Four Islands in Northeastern Papua New Guinea
• Kiriwina
• Kilivila Language

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Stratification

• Rank Society
• Chiefly
• Own rights to food and some spatial seperation
• Participation in Kula
• Commmoner
• Matrilineal
• Horticulturalist
• Redistribution (Potlatch)

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Religion

• Religious Beliefs and ceremonies
• Magic spells
• Festivals
• Medicine
• Death and Afterlife
• Tuma
• Haunting of village
• Mourning of body

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Economic Institution

• Subsistence
• Horticulture
• Redistribution
• Potlatch
• Trade
• Kula Ring
• Division of Labor
• Land

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Political Institution and Changes

• Yams as Social Signifiers
• Chiefs
• Division into Two Nations
• Kabisawali Movement
• Full Independence
• Tourism

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Family and Kinship

• Matrilineal
• Clans
• Village
• Marriage
• Family
• Inheritance

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Sources

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  Trobriand Gardening. Pretoria 1984, University
  of South Africa.
• Leach, Edmund. Concerning Trobriand clans and the
  kinship category TABU. London 1971, Cambridge
  University Press.
• Leach, Jerry W. Socio-Historical Conflict and
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  movements in Papua New Guinea. Ed. R.J. May.
  Canberra. 1982 249-290, 449-466
• Malinowski, Bronislaw. Baloma the spirits of
  the dead in the Trobriand Islands. The Journal
  of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great
  Britain and Ireland. 1916 353-430.
• Malinowski, Bronislaw. The Primitive Economics
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• Watson, Lepani. Trobriand Island Clans and
  Chiefs. Man. Vol. 56. 1956 164.
• Weiner, Annette B. The Trobriands of Papua New
  Guinea. New York 1988. Holt, Reindhart, and
  Winston

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