Moral Views on Incest
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) (05 March 1918) , 2 page(s)
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- Abstract / Summary
- Date: 5.3.18. Place: Oburaku. Informants: Kariwabu and Tauriki. A passage in the Trobriand language with English commentary, numbered J230, discusses moral views on incest; informants say that in the past, discovery would have led to suicide. The information is written on the back of reused stationery, consisting of a partial, typed manuscript discussing the repressiveness of Tsarist Russia.
- Field of Interest
- Anthropology
- Copyright Message
- Materials sourced from Yale University. Copyright © 2016 by Patrick Burke
- 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, Incest, 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