ABSTRACT

The concluding part of Coral Gardens and Their Magic provides a linguistic commentary to the ethnography on agriculture. Malinowski gives a full description of the language of the Trobrianders as an aspect of culture.

part IV|74 pages

An ethnographic theory of language and some practical corollaries

part V|136 pages

Corpus inscriptionum agriculturae quiriviniensis; or the language of gardens

chapter |9 pages

Division I Land and gardens

chapter |10 pages

Division II The crops

chapter |11 pages

Division VII Magic

chapter |7 pages

Division IX Magic of growth

part VII|92 pages

Magical formulae