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Bronislaw Malinowski

Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (1922)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1922

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Index of Terms

Basi

In the Kula, an intermediary gift given as a token of good faith, with the assumption that a larger gift will be given later.

Baloma

Spirits of the dead.

Bomala Lilava

The taboos of the magic bundle (lilava). The term for general taboos about the Kula.

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