Trobriand Islands
144 Followers
Recent papers in Trobriand Islands
Over the past century, anthropologists have claimed primary authority regarding authentic filmic representations of indigenous peoples. The emergence of indigenous films since the 1980s—as well as changes within the discipline— have... more
Questo lavoro di Tesi si propone di affrontare un interrogativo aperto da Malinowski in "The Sexual Life of Savages in North-West Melanesia", ossia l'ipofertilità delle adolescenti delle isole Trobriand. Partendo da un'analisi sincronica... more
Trobriand Tales, Kwanebuyee Kilivila: Folktales and Mythical Stories from the Tro- briand Islands of Papua New Guinea, Collected by Jerry W. Leach and Held at the National Anthropo- logical Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian... more
Ethnographic films hold great historical value for the communities in which they were filmed, yet people in source communities often lack access to them. Visitors engaging in ‘visual repatriation’ of ethnographic film can enrich both... more
Our article explored current Trobriand cosmological views and compared the findings with what had been reported from Malinowski onwards. Using mixed methods research, we assessed contemporary ideas about rebirth and the afterlife and... more
Potlach, Malinowski, Anthropology
'Brokers and Boundaries: Colonial exploration in indigenous territory'. ANU Press, 2016 At the time of British New Guinea Administrator William MacGregor's first visits to the Trobriand Islands in 1890 and 1891, the islands had been... more
The people came out and shed their anaconda skins. — Irving Goldman, Cubeo origin myth While functionalist accounts of myth have generally yielded to structural analyses since the appearance of Lévi-Strauss's classic essay, " The... more
Trobriand dance is a key cultural expression and a means of communicating subjectivity in a number of ways: it expresses aspects of kinship, gender, morality, and ideas about modernity and primitivity. In a region with a long history of... more
Mimesis is a powerful tool for apprehending and comprehending alterity. This chapter examines how carvers in the Trobriand Islands appropriate images from outsiders to expand their relational networks. It argues that the creative... more
Conference paper presented to Malinowski’s Legacy: One Hundred Years of Anthropology in the Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea Wanigili Centre, Alotau (MBP), Papua New Guinea, 11 - 13th August 2015 When thinking and talking about... more
In the Trobriand Islands of today’s Papua New Guinea, the coconut has long been mainly an accompaniment to yams – the primary staple food, central cultural icon and source of much of the chiefs’ economic and political power. From the... more
THE CONTEXTS OF TRANSLATION ACCORDING TO BRONISŁAW MALINOWSKI Describing spells, Bronisław Malinowski distinguishes general commentary (sociological context, ritual context, structure, dogmatic context, mode of recitation) and linguistic... more
Per un'economia a misura d'uomo. Il saggio "L'essere umano e l'economia. Ricerche per una nuova antropologia" a cura di Ernesto Longobardi e Davide Natali.
Slides de apresentação realizada no âmbito da disciplina Teorias Antropológicas I, ministrada pelo Prof. Dr. Ricardo Cid Fernandes no curso de Mestrado em Antropologia e Arqueologia do Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia e... more
Comparative analysis of gift-giving in Homer and in the Trobriand Islands, showing that within an institution notionally dominated by forms and attitudes of generosity, it is possible and acceptable to seek to make a profit out of the... more
STEREOTYPES AND TRANSLATIONS, OR CULTURALLY MOTIVATED "LIES" The Italian formula traduttore — traditore is one of the most perpetuated stereotypes in translation studies. Translators who render the Bible into exotic languages, such as... more
Anthropology's scope is broader than its public, often limited to other anthropologists, while those who share their knowledge in the field with the ethnographer are too often cut off from anthropological debates about that knowledge. The... more
‘FOR EVERYTHING ITS SEASON’ IN TRANSLATION INTO THE KIRIWINA LANGUAGE Citation (formatted-apa) Szczerbowski, T. (2003). "Wszystko ma swój czas" w przekładzie na język Kiriwiny. W: I. Bobrowski (red.), Anabasis. Prace ofiarowane Profesor... more
In Making the Modern Primitive, the paradisiacal underpinnings that embody tropical islands, islandness and islanders are discernible. The predictable and increasing shifts toward embracing the tourism economy is now widespread in the... more
In the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), yoyowa (consistently translated as “witches” by English-speaking Trobrianders) are a constant threat, causing illness and death to those who arouse their envy or ire. While some women... more
TRANSLATION AS THE BEGINNING OF LITERARY HISTORY Although it is surprising, many tribes and nations have no idea of what could be called the evolution of the world or the evolution of society, an example being the Trobriand Islands.... more
Özet Toplum karmaşık bir olgudur. Karmaşık olanı anlamaya çalışmak bağlantılar kurmakla bir başka deyişle interdisipliner olmakla mümkündür. Bu noktada kendisine en yakın bilim dalı olan sosyal antropolojiden tarih ve felsefeye kadar... more
Making the Modern Primitive provides an anthropological analysis of the encounter between local residents and tourists in the Trobriand Islands, a place renowned in anthropology and represented in various media as culturally authentic. In... more