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When the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski remarked on the similarity of two brothers in the Trobriand Islands, this was taken as a great insult.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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When the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski remarked on the similarity of two brothers in the Trobriand Islands, this was taken as a great insult.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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The Trobriand Islanders of the South Pacific have a word that has no exact counterpart in English -- mokita -- which means "the truth that everyone knows, but nobody speaks."
Jerry Jasinowski: Beware the Mokita Jerry Jasinowski 2011
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His total assets were quickly converted to New Yen, a fat sheaf of the old paper currency that circulated endlessly through the closed circuit of the world's black markets like the seashells of the Trobriand islanders.
Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010
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The ecoregion lies just off the southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the southwest Pacific and includes Woodlark Island and two island groups: the D'Entrecasteaux and the Trobriand.
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Kaileuna and Kiriwina islands in the Trobriand group lie further out in the Pacific, and Woodlark Island is even further to the southwest.
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Researching for an essay I became very interested in the language and customs of the Trobriand islanders, although since I was reading Malinowski's work from the 1920s, it's probably a bit out of date!
On Mlabri DC 2007
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Malinowski, in Magic, Science, and Religion and Other Essays, pointed out that Trobriand islanders—far from living in a perpetual fog of magical thought—hunted and gardened with empirically-honed skill; they only turned to magic when they reached the limits of their practical knowledge.
Superstition 2006
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Ditto for scattered tribes in the Trobriand Islands and Central Australia and the Ainu of northern Japan.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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Ditto for scattered tribes in the Trobriand Islands and Central Australia and the Ainu of northern Japan.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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