Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands (Complete Two Volumes) The Description of Gardening - and - The Language of Magic and Gardening
by Malinowski, Bronislaw
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- ISBN 10
- 0486235971
- ISBN 13
- 9780486235974
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Synopsis
Coral Gardens and Their Magic, properly Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands, is the final book in anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski's ethnographic trilogy on the lives of the Trobriand Islanders. It concentrates on the cultivation practices the Trobriand Islanders used to grow yams, taro, bananas, and palms.
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- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC (US)
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- Title
- Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands (Complete Two Volumes) The Description of Gardening - and - The Language of Magic and Gardening
- Author
- Malinowski, Bronislaw
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0486235971
- ISBN 13
- 9780486235974
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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