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Aliatoa - Running Notes - #5 - June 14, 1932
in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N95: Papua New Guinea, Folder 4: New Guinea. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli. Mead and Fortune field trip, 1931-33. Field data. Arapesh Notebooks Running field notes (MM). Jan. 14 - 1932 (2 v) #3) (District of Columbia) (14 June 1932) , 302 page(s)
Handwritten field notes by Margaret Mead on unlined paper in a notebook bound at the top. The titles 'Aliatoa - Running Notes - #5 - June 14, 1932' and 'Transition Notes' are on a strip of white paper pasted onto the cover. The cover also has the notations 'Contains 6 month supply list,' 'R's note on ... [illegibl...
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in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N95: Papua New Guinea, Folder 4: New Guinea. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli. Mead and Fortune field trip, 1931-33. Field data. Arapesh Notebooks Running field notes (MM). Jan. 14 - 1932 (2 v) #3) (District of Columbia) (14 June 1932) , 302 page(s)
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Handwritten field notes by Margaret Mead on unlined paper in a notebook bound at the top. The titles 'Aliatoa - Running Notes - #5 - June 14, 1932' and 'Transition Notes' are on a strip of white paper pasted onto the cover. The cover also has the notations 'Contains 6 month supply list,' 'R's note on ... [illegible],' and 'done - 23/9/31 [?].' The first portion of the notebook contains supply lists and expenses. The remaining notes are comprised...
Handwritten field notes by Margaret Mead on unlined paper in a notebook bound at the top. The titles 'Aliatoa - Running Notes - #5 - June 14, 1932' and 'Transition Notes' are on a strip of white paper pasted onto the cover. The cover also has the notations 'Contains 6 month supply list,' 'R's note on ... [illegible],' and 'done - 23/9/31 [?].' The first portion of the notebook contains supply lists and expenses. The remaining notes are comprised of vocabulary lists in an indigenous language, often with their English equivalents, and other field notes. A few notes are in Reo Fortune's hand. Many pages are struck through.
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Date Written / Recorded
14 June 1932, 1932
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field notes
Contributor
Margaret Mead, 1901-1978
Author / Creator
Margaret Mead, 1901-1978
Topic / Theme
Anthropological linguistics, Vocabulary, Arapesh
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Altar of Fire
written by Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014 and J. F. Staal, fl. 2010; directed by Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014 and J. F. Staal, fl. 2010; produced by Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER)), 45 mins
This film records a 12 day ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, southwest India, in April 1975. This event was possibly the last performance of the Agnicayana, a Vedic ritual of sacrifice dating back 3,000 years and probably the oldest surviving human ritual.
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written by Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014 and J. F. Staal, fl. 2010; directed by Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014 and J. F. Staal, fl. 2010; produced by Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER)), 45 mins
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This film records a 12 day ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, southwest India, in April 1975. This event was possibly the last performance of the Agnicayana, a Vedic ritual of sacrifice dating back 3,000 years and probably the oldest surviving human ritual. This film records a 12 day ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, southwest India, in April 1975. This event was possibly the last performance of the Agnicayana, a Ve...
This film records a 12 day ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, southwest India, in April 1975. This event was possibly the last performance of the Agnicayana, a Vedic ritual of sacrifice dating back 3,000 years and probably the oldest surviving human ritual. This film records a 12 day ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, southwest India, in April 1975. This event was possibly the last performance of the Agnicayana, a Vedic ritual of sacrifice dating back 3,000 years and probably the oldest surviving human ritual. Long considered extinct and never witnessed by outsiders, the ceremonies require the participation of seventeen priests, involve libations of Soma juice and oblations of other substances, all preceded by several months of preparation and rehearsals. They include the construction, from a thousand bricks, of a fire altar in the shape of a bird. Around 1500 B.C., nomads who spoke an Indo-European language entered India and evolved a complex ritual involving the cults of fire and Soma, a hallucinogenic plant that grew in the Western Himalayas. Their Vedic language developed into Sanskrit, the classical language of Indian civilization. Among the later religions of India, Hinduism accepted and Buddhism rejected the Vedic culture. But both retained many of its ritual forms and recitations. Some of these have traveled all over Asia. Agni, the fire, is still worshipped with the help of Vedic mantras in Japanese Buddhist temples. In India itself, the preservation of the Agnicayana, though partly explained by the extraordinary conservatism of the Vedic Brahmins and their dedication to the culture of their spiritual ancestors, remains one of the miracles of history.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014
Author / Creator
Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014, J. F. Staal, fl. 2010
Date Published / Released
1976
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
Nambudiri, Cultural change and history, Linguistics, Anthropology, Vedas, Religion, Religious rites and ceremonies, Ethnography
Copyright Message
by Documentary Educational Resources
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Analytic Table
in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 16: Linguistic material) (London, England) (1919) , 7 page(s)
Five undated, hand-written pages headed ''Analytic Table'' contain a detailed outline discussing the psychological underpinnings of speech and a table illustrating an analysis of language in that context. It gives particular regard to the language of the Trobriand Islanders, in support of a book on semantics and e...
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in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 16: Linguistic material) (London, England) (1919) , 7 page(s)
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Five undated, hand-written pages headed ''Analytic Table'' contain a detailed outline discussing the psychological underpinnings of speech and a table illustrating an analysis of language in that context. It gives particular regard to the language of the Trobriand Islanders, in support of a book on semantics and ethnolinguistics. Two pages are written on the backs of reused stationery: a partial, hand-written letter discussing wartime conditions...
Five undated, hand-written pages headed ''Analytic Table'' contain a detailed outline discussing the psychological underpinnings of speech and a table illustrating an analysis of language in that context. It gives particular regard to the language of the Trobriand Islanders, in support of a book on semantics and ethnolinguistics. Two pages are written on the backs of reused stationery: a partial, hand-written letter discussing wartime conditions in England; and a partial, hand-written outline for a manuscript on the Mailu people of New Guinea.
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Date Written / Recorded
1919
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field notes
Contributor
Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
Author / Creator
Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
Topic / Theme
Austronesian languages, Anthropological linguistics, Trobriand Islanders
Copyright Message
Materials sourced from Yale University. Copyright © 2016 by Patrick Burke
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Argument by Metaphor and Simile
written by Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942, in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 24: Linguistics: Recent semantic studies) (London, England) (1934) , 2 page(s)
A page contains a single, typed passage with page number reference, possibly from an unspecified book by Alan Gardiner, taken down in support of a criticism of his work by Malinowski. It is written on the back of reused stationery, a partial class schedule for the Lent Term of 1933-34, probably from the London Sch...
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written by Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942, in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 24: Linguistics: Recent semantic studies) (London, England) (1934) , 2 page(s)
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A page contains a single, typed passage with page number reference, possibly from an unspecified book by Alan Gardiner, taken down in support of a criticism of his work by Malinowski. It is written on the back of reused stationery, a partial class schedule for the Lent Term of 1933-34, probably from the London School of Economics and Political Science and listing Malinowski as teaching a seminar in modern anthropology.
Date Written / Recorded
1934
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
Topic / Theme
Language and linguistics
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski Collection, LSE Library. Used with Permission of the LSE Library and the Bronislaw Malinowski Estate.
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Barter of the Dobuans in Sinaketa
in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 13: Texts, manuscripts) (London, England) (07 August 1918) , 4 page(s)
Date: 7.8.18. Place: Sinaketa (Kiriwina). Informant: Mohagoi. A passage in the Trobriand language with simultaneous English translation and some commentary, numbered J126, is a first-hand account of trade with an expedition from Dobu Island in the Kiriwinian village of Sinaketa.
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in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 13: Texts, manuscripts) (London, England) (07 August 1918) , 4 page(s)
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Date: 7.8.18. Place: Sinaketa (Kiriwina). Informant: Mohagoi. A passage in the Trobriand language with simultaneous English translation and some commentary, numbered J126, is a first-hand account of trade with an expedition from Dobu Island in the Kiriwinian village of Sinaketa.
Date Written / Recorded
07 August 1918, 1918
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field notes
Contributor
Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
Author / Creator
Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
Topic / Theme
Trade and commerce, Austronesian languages, Dobu, Trobriand Islanders
Copyright Message
Materials sourced from Yale University. Copyright © 2016 by Patrick Burke
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Biwat (Mundugumor) Raw Field Notes
in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N102: Papua New Guinea, Folder 6: New Guinea. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli. Mead and Fortune field trip, 1931-33. Postfield materials Biwat field notes made by Dr. D. C. Laycock in 1971) (District of Columbia) (January 1971) , 22 page(s)
Handwritten Biwat language (Mundugumor) field notes written and collected by Don Laycock. Field notes focus on morphophonemics, plurals, pronouns, adjectives, clothing, numbers, verbs, a limited vocabulary with translations, and useful phrases with translations.
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in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N102: Papua New Guinea, Folder 6: New Guinea. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli. Mead and Fortune field trip, 1931-33. Postfield materials Biwat field notes made by Dr. D. C. Laycock in 1971) (District of Columbia) (January 1971) , 22 page(s)
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Handwritten Biwat language (Mundugumor) field notes written and collected by Don Laycock. Field notes focus on morphophonemics, plurals, pronouns, adjectives, clothing, numbers, verbs, a limited vocabulary with translations, and useful phrases with translations.
Date Written / Recorded
January 1971, 1971
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field notes
Contributor
Donald Laycock, 1936-1988
Author / Creator
Donald Laycock, 1936-1988
Topic / Theme
Language and linguistics, Biwat
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Cluxite. Grammar, 12
in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 17: Grammar: Old Notes) (London, England) (1922) , 2 page(s)
Undated, handwritten manuscript notes for a general work on grammar are headed 'Cluxite. Grammar, 12.' The notes are divided into commentary on 'Roots' and on 'Affixes.' The information is written on the back of a partial, typed letter from Charles Seligman advising Malinowski to look out for obsidian implements w...
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in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 17: Grammar: Old Notes) (London, England) (1922) , 2 page(s)
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Undated, handwritten manuscript notes for a general work on grammar are headed 'Cluxite. Grammar, 12.' The notes are divided into commentary on 'Roots' and on 'Affixes.' The information is written on the back of a partial, typed letter from Charles Seligman advising Malinowski to look out for obsidian implements when in the Massim district.
Date Written / Recorded
1922
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field notes
Contributor
Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
Author / Creator
Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
Topic / Theme
Grammar, Anthropological linguistics, Trobriand Islanders
Copyright Message
Materials sourced from Yale University. Copyright © 2016 by Patrick Burke
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Copula
in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 16: Linguistic material) (London, England) (1919) , 2 page(s)
An undated, hand-written page headed ''Copula'' contains brief notes discussing connecting words, with specific examples in the Trobriand language, in support of a book on semantics and ethnolinguistics. It is written on the back of reused stationery, a partial, typed manuscript discussing the communal work of an...
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in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 16: Linguistic material) (London, England) (1919) , 2 page(s)
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An undated, hand-written page headed ''Copula'' contains brief notes discussing connecting words, with specific examples in the Trobriand language, in support of a book on semantics and ethnolinguistics. It is written on the back of reused stationery, a partial, typed manuscript discussing the communal work of an indigenous people.
Date Written / Recorded
1919
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field notes
Contributor
Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
Author / Creator
Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
Topic / Theme
Austronesian languages, Anthropological linguistics, Trobriand Islanders
Copyright Message
Materials sourced from Yale University. Copyright © 2016 by Patrick Burke
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[Copy of] On e.g. Dostoevsky in Linguistics. [2.2.36]
in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 23: [Lectures on Iinguistics]) (London, England) (02 February 1936) , 2 page(s)
Two typed pages contain a copy of a brief essay on meaning as the product of the word spoken itself and the context in which it is spoken, with the novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky pointed to as an example. It is not clear whether this is written by Malinowski himself, or for what purpose.
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in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 23: [Lectures on Iinguistics]) (London, England) (02 February 1936) , 2 page(s)
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Two typed pages contain a copy of a brief essay on meaning as the product of the word spoken itself and the context in which it is spoken, with the novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky pointed to as an example. It is not clear whether this is written by Malinowski himself, or for what purpose.
Date Written / Recorded
02 February 1936, 1936
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Essay
Person Discussed
Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821-1881
Topic / Theme
Language and linguistics
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski Collection, LSE Library. Used with Permission of the LSE Library and the Bronislaw Malinowski Estate.
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[Copy of] Scheme for Criticising Gardiner
written by Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942, in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 24: Linguistics: Recent semantic studies) (London, England) (1934) , 2 page(s)
A typewritten page with hand-written annotation contains an apparently updated copy of Malinowski's plan for a criticism of the work of Alan H. Gardiner, based on dualisms which Malinowski finds absurd, such as a distinction between word meaning and the thing meant. The title is typed in red and the letters 'A.H.G...
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written by Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942, in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (LSE), of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Box 5: Linguistic notes and lectures, based on Trobriand Islands fieldwork, Folder 24: Linguistics: Recent semantic studies) (London, England) (1934) , 2 page(s)
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A typewritten page with hand-written annotation contains an apparently updated copy of Malinowski's plan for a criticism of the work of Alan H. Gardiner, based on dualisms which Malinowski finds absurd, such as a distinction between word meaning and the thing meant. The title is typed in red and the letters 'A.H.G.' are written in red pencil at the top. It is written on the back of reused stationery, a partial list of candidates for advanced deg...
A typewritten page with hand-written annotation contains an apparently updated copy of Malinowski's plan for a criticism of the work of Alan H. Gardiner, based on dualisms which Malinowski finds absurd, such as a distinction between word meaning and the thing meant. The title is typed in red and the letters 'A.H.G.' are written in red pencil at the top. It is written on the back of reused stationery, a partial list of candidates for advanced degrees at an unspecified university.
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Date Written / Recorded
1934
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Essay
Author / Creator
Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
Person Discussed
Alan H. Gardiner, 1879-1963
Topic / Theme
Language and linguistics
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski Collection, LSE Library. Used with Permission of the LSE Library and the Bronislaw Malinowski Estate.
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