Rain and Sun Magic - The Oburaku System
in Bronislaw Malinowski Papers (Yale), of Yale University. Sterling Memorial Library. Manuscripts and Archives (Papers relating to Malinowski's studies of the Trobriands Islands, War III (6): Rain, sun, magic, war) (New Haven, CT) (1918) , 2 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Place: Oburaku (Kiriwina). A handwritten page of notes, mostly in English with terms in the indigenous text of the Trobriands, discusses magic associated with rain and sun in the region of Oburaku on Kiriwina Island. Described are particular magical practices and taboos. The notes are written on the back of reused stationery, consisting of a partial, typed manuscript discussing the hunting practices of the Mailu people of Papua New Guinea.
- Field of Interest
- Anthropology
- Copyright Message
- Materials sourced from Yale University. Copyright © 2016 by Patrick Burke
- Content Type
- Field notes
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Bronisław Malinowski, 1884-1942
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 2
- Page Range
- 1-2
- Subject
- Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Weather, Magic, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Kiriwina Island, Milne Bay Province, Trobriand Islanders
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural