ABSTRACT
Personally I am interested in technology only in so far as it reveals the traditional ways and means by which knowledge and industry solve certain problems presented by a given culture. The Trobriand storehouse, as we already know, enables the natives to realise a number of economic ends indispensable to their tribal order. It makes possible the accumulation of food—in some cases also the display of it, in others its modest concealment. It is the knowledge of how the structural technique of the bwayma satisfies the wants created by the demands of Trobriand culture that appears to me of real value.
