The Tuma Underworld of Love : Erotic and other narrative songs of the Trobriand Islanders and their spirits of the dead.

The Trobriand Islanders' eschatological belief system explains what happens when someone dies. Bronislaw Malinowski described essentials of this eschatology in his articles "Baloma: the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands" and "Myth in Primitive Psychology". There h...

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Main Author:	Senft, Gunter
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
Series:	Culture and language use ; v. 5
Subjects:	Kiriwinian language. Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) > Languages. Kiriwina (Langue) Trobriand, Îles (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Langues. FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Oceanic & Australian Languages. Kiriwinian language Language and languages Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands Antropological linguistics Austronesian languages Linguistics Anthropology Electronic books. Electronic book.
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