The Death and the Haunting of Mwayuvido'u
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) (08 July 1918) , 2 page(s)
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- Abstract / Summary
- Date: 8.7.18. Place: Omarakana (Kiriwina). Informant: Ibena. Two pages contain a passage in the Trobriand language, untranslated and numbered J298, discussing the death and subsequent haunting of Mwayuvido'u. It is apparently an account of an actual person rather than a myth.
- 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, 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