The Bulubwalata [Witchery] as Practiced on a Canoe

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) (14 August 1918) , 2 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: Date: 14.8.18. Place: Sinaketa (Kiriwina). Informant: Layseta. A passage in the Trobriand language with simultaneous English translation, numbered J164, discusses 'bulubwalata,' a kind of preventative or counter magic that might be said aboard a canoe. It is written on reused stationery, consisting of a partial, handwritten letter apparently between two acquaintances of Malinowski, as he is referred to in the third person.
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Content Type: Field notes
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
Warning: Contains explicit content: No
Format: Text
Page Count: 2
Subject: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Linguistic anthropology, Magic, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Antropología Lingüística, Antropologia Linguística, Kiriwina Island, Milne Bay Province, Trobriand Islanders
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Antropología Lingüística, Antropologia Linguística