ABSTRACT

Section 4 of chapter 7 is taken from Malinowski's first publication on the Kula (1920, pp. 101-5). With this exception, the three chapters which follow have been assembled from Argonauts of the Western Pacific, pp. 81-3, 86-8, 507-8, 91-6 and 98-9 (chapter 7); 118-20, 208-11, 275-81, 352-60, 362-4, 480-1, 468-75, 489-90 (chapter 8); 424, 229-30, 236, 238-47, 392-6, 400-1, 403-18, 306, 311-21, 327-30 and 510-13 (chapter 9).