Account of the Great Drought and Famine, 1918

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) (22 June 1918) , 2 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: Date: 22.6.18. Place: Omarakana (Kiriwina). Informant: Tokuluba'kiki. Two pages contain an extended, hand-printed passage in the indigenous text of the Trobriand Islanders, with simultaneous transliteration in English and very minor annotation in red pencil. The text is an account of a major drought and famine and is numbered J.244. The first page is numbered 164.
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Copyright Message: Material sourced from the Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski Collection, LSE Library. Used with Permission of the LSE Library and the Bronislaw Malinowski Estate.
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, Droughts, Famine, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Trobriand Islanders
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural