Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands, Volume II: The Language of Magic and Gardening

The concluding part of Coral Gardens and Their Magic provides a linguistic commentary to the ethnography on agriculture. Malinowski gives a full description of the language of the Trobrianders as an aspect of culture. Introduction to Volume Two Contents of Volume Two Analytical Table of Contents Part IV: An Ethnographic Theory of Language and some Practical Corollaries I. Language as Tool, Document and Cultural Reality II. The Translation of Untranslatable Words III. The Context of Words and the Context of Facts IV. The Pragmatic Setting of Utterances V. Meaning as Function of Words VI. The Sources of Meaning in the Speech of Infants VII. Gaps, Gluts and Vagaries of a Native Terminology Part V: Corpus Inscriptionum Agriculturae Quiriviniensis; or The Language of Gardens Note I. Land and Gardens II. The Crops III. The Crops: Staple Produce of the Gardens IV. The Crops: Trees and Plants of The Village Grove V. The Social and Cultural Setting of Trobriand Agriculture VI. The Technique and Outfit of Agriculture VII. Magic VIII. Inaugurative Magical Ceremonies IX. Magic of Growth X. The Magic of Harvest and of Plenty XI. A Few Texts Relating to Garden Magic XII. The Terminology of the Legal and Economic Aspects of Gardening Part VI: An Ethnographic Theory of the Magical Word I. The Meaning of Meaningless Words II. Coefficient of Weirdness in the Language of Magic III. Digression on the Theory of Magical Language IV. Coefficient of Intelligibility V. Digression on the General Theory of Magical Language VI. The Sociological Function of Magic as Another Source of Intelligibility of Spells Part VII: Magical Formulae Magical Formulae Index Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was one of the most important figures in the development of modern social anthropology. Among the British anthropologists repudiating so-called armchair research, Malinowski was a pioneer of fieldwork. He undertook his long-sustained fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and his accounts are populated by sympathetic figures, described in a deliberately vivid literary style. Malinowski is also recognized as the founder of Functionalism and his ethnographic studies contend that all components of society interlock to form a well-balanced system. This collection reprints the ground breaking studies that emerged from Malinowski's fieldwork. The final volume of the set is an assessment of his contribution to anthropology. Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was one of the most important figures in the development of modern social anthropology. This collection reprints a selection of ground breaking studies that emerged from Malinowski's fieldwork. The first part of a two-volume classic devoted to the agriculture and agricultural rites of the Trobriand islanders. This work looks at the significance of agriculture in the Trobriand Islands.