Accounts of the Behavior and Nature of Sea Creatures

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) (28 February 1918) , 6 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: Date: 28.2.18. Place: Oburaku. Informants: Morovato, Boba'u, Mwayoulo. Four pages contain an extensive passage numbered J225, an English translation of accounts of the behavior and nature of various sea creatures -- generally named in indigenous text -- including feeding, mating, swimming etc. There is a column of indigenous terms with English translations on the left. They are written on the back of reused stationery: a partial, hand-written list of agricultural journals; and a partial, hand-written letter from pearl trader Billy Hancock, discussing a flu outbreak.
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Content Type: Field notes
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
Warning: Contains explicit content: No
Format: Text
Page Count: 6
Subject: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Linguistic anthropology, Fish (Animal), Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Antropología Lingüística, Antropologia Linguística, Trobriand Islanders
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Antropología Lingüística, Antropologia Linguística