Argonauts of the western Pacific : an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea.

By: Malinowski, BronislawMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1922. Description: 527 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Manners and customs | Papua and New Guinea -- Social life and customs | Melanesia -- Social life and customs | Melanesie -- Murs et coutumes | MelanesiaDDC classification: 572.995
Contents:
INTROD. THE SUBJECT, METHOD AND SCOPE OF THIS ENQUIRY -- I. Sailing, and trading in the South Seas ; the Kula -- II. Method in ethnography -- III. Starting field work -- IV. Life in a tent among the natives. Mechanism of "getting in touch" with them -- V. Active methods of research. Order and consistency in savage cultures. Methodological consequences of this truth -- VI. Formulating the principles of tribal constitution and of the anatomy of culture. Method of inference from statistic accumulation of concrete data. Uses of synoptic charts -- VII. Presentation of the intimate touches of native life : of types of behaviour. Method of systematic fixing of impressions : of detailed, consecutive records. Importance of personal participation in native life -- VIII. Recording of stereotyped manners of thinking and feeling. Corpus inscriptionum kiriwinensium -- IX. Summary of argument. The native's vision of his world -- Ch. I. THE COUNTRY AND INHABITANTS OF THE KULA DISTRICT -- I. Racial division in Eastern New Guinea. Seligman's classification. The Kula natives -- II. Sub-divisions of the Kula district -- III. Scenery at the Eastern end of New Guinea. Villages of the S. Massim, their customs and social institution. -- IV. The d'Entrecasteaux Archipelago. The tribes of Dobu. The mythological associations of their country. Some of their customs and institutions. Sorcery. A vision of Sarubwoyna beach -- V. Sailing North. The amphlett group. Savage monopolists -- Ch. II. THE NATIVES OF THE TROBRIAND ISLANDS -- I. Arrival in the coral Islands. First impression of the native. Some significant appearances and their deeper meaning -- II. Position of women, their life and conduct before and after marriage -- III. Further exploration in the village. A cross country walk. Gardens and gardening -- IV. The native's working power, their motives and incentives to work. Magic and work. A digression on primitive economics -- V. Chieftainship : power through wealth, a plutocratic community. List of the various provinces and political divisions in the Trobriands -- VI. Totemism, the solidarity of clans and the bonds of kinship -- VII. Spirits of the dead. The overweening importance of magic. Black magic. The prowling sorcerers and the flying witches. The malevolent visitors fro the South, and epidemics -- VIII. The Eastern neighbours of the Trobrianders. The remaining districts of the Kula -- Ch. III. THE ESSENTIALS OF THE KULA -- I. A concise definition of the Kula -- II. Its economic character -- III. The articles exchanged ; the conception of vaygua -- IV. The main rules and aspects of the Kula : the sociological aspect (partnership), direction of movement, nature of Kula ownership -- V. The act of exchange, its regulations, the light it throws on the acquisitive and "communistic" tendencies of the native, its concrete outlines, the sollicitory gifts -- VI. The associated activities and the secondary aspects of the Kula : construction of canoes, subsidiary trade -- their true relation to the Kula, the ceremonial, mythology and magic associated with the Kula, the mortuary taboos and distributions, in their relation to the Kula -- Ch. IV. CANOES AND SAILING -- I. The value and importance of a canoe to a native. Its appearance, the impressions and emotions it arouses in those who use or own it. The atmosphere of romance which surrounds it for the native -- II. Analysis of its construction, in relation to its function. The three types of canoes in the Trobiand Islands -- III. Sociology of a large canoe (masawa) -- III. A. Social organisation of labour in construction a canoe : the division of functions, the magical regulation of work -- IV. B. Sociology of a large canoe ownership, the toli-relationship, the toliwage "master" or 'owner" of a canoe, the four privileges and functions of a toliwaga -- V. C. The social division of functions in manning and sailing a canoe. Statistical data about the Trobriand shipping -- Ch. V. THE CEREMONIAL BUILDING OF A WAGA -- I. Construction of canoes as part of the Kula proceedings. Magic and mythology. The preparatory and the ceremonial stage of construction -- II. The first stage : expelling the wood spirit Tokway, transport of the log, the hollowing-out of the log and the associated magic -- III. The second stage : the inaugural rite of Kula magic, the native at grips with problems of construction, the wayugo creeper, the magical spell uttered over it, caulking, the three magical exorcisms -- IV. Some general remarks about the two stages of canoe-building and the concomitant magic. Bulubwalata (evil magic) of canoes. The ornamental prowboards, The Dobuan and the Muruwan types of overseas canoe -- Ch. VI. LAUNCHING OF A CANOE AND CEREMONIAL VISITING -- TRIBAL ECONOMICS IN THE TROBRIANDS -- I. The procedure and magic at launching. The trial run (tasasoria). Account of the launching and tasasoria seen on the beach of Kualukuba. Reflections on the decay of customs under European influence -- II. Digression on the sociology of work : organisation of labour, forms of communial labour, payment for work -- III. The custom of ceremonial visiting (kabigidoya), local trade, done on such expeditions -- IV -- VII. Digression on gifts, payments, and exchange -- IV. Attitude on the native towards wealth. Desire of display. Enhancement of social prestige through wealth. The motives of accumulating food stuffs, The vilamalya (magic of plenty). The handling of yams, Psychology of eating. Value of manufactured goods, psychologically analysed -- V. Motives for exchange. Giving, as satisfaction of vanity and as display of power. Fallacy of the "economically isolated individual" or "household". Absence of gain in exchange. -- VI. Exchange of gifts and barter. List of gifts, payments and commercial transactions ; 1. Pure gifts ; 2. Customary payments, repaid irregularly and without strict equivalents ; 3. Payments for services rendered ; 4. Gifts returned in strictly equivalent from ; 5. Exchange of material goods against privileges, titles and non-material possessions ; 6. Ceremonial barter with deferred payment ; 7. Trade pure and simple -- VII. Economic duties corresponding to various social ties, table of eight classes of social relationship, table of eight classes of social relationship, characterised by definite economic obligations -- Ch. VII. THE DEPARTURE OF AN OVERSEAS EXPEDITION ; Scene laid in Sinaketa. The local chiefs. Stir in the village. The social differentiation of the sailing party. Magical rites, associated with the preparing and loading of a canoe. The sulu-mwoya rite. The magical bundle (lilava). The compartments of a canoe and the gebobo spell. Farewells on the beach. -- Ch. VIII. THE FIRST HALT OF THE FLEET ON MUWA -- i. The definitio of a uvalaku (ceremonial, competitive expedition) -- II. The sagali (ceremonial distribution) -- III. The magic of sailing -- Ch. IX. SAILING ON THE SEA-ARM OF PILOLU -- I. The landscape. Mythological geography of the regions beyond. -- II. Sailing : the winds, navigation, technique of sailing a canoe and its dangers -- III. The customs and taboos of sailing. The beliefs in dreadful monsters lurking in the sea -- Ch. X. THE STORY OF SHIPWRECK -- I. The flying witches, mulukwausi or yoyova : essentials of the belief, initiation and education of a yoyova (witch), secrecy surrounding this condition, manner of practising this witch-craft, actual cases -- II. The flying witches at sea and in ship-wreck. Other dangerous agents. The kayga'u magic, its modes of operation -- III. Account of the preparatory rites of kayga'u. Some incantations quoted -- IV. The story of ship-wreck and rescue -- V. The spell of the rescuing giant fish. The myth and the magical formula of Tokulubwaydoga -- Ch. XI. IN THE AMPHLETTS -- SOCIOLOGY OF THE KULA -- I. Arrival in Gumasila. Example of a Kula conversation. Trobrianders on long visits in the Amphletts
Sociology of the Kula ; 1. Sociological limitations to participation in the Kula ; 2. Relation of partnership ; 3. Entering the Kula relationship ; 4. Participation of women in the Kula -- III. The natives of the Amphletts : their industries and trade, pottery, importing the clay, technology of pot-making, commercial relations with the surrounding districts -- IV. Drift of migrations and cultural influences in this province -- Ch. XII. IN TEWARA AND SANAROA -- MYTHOLOGY OF THE KULA -- I. Sailing under the lee of Koytabu. The cannibals of the unexplored jungle. Trobriand traditions and legends about them. The history and song of Gumagabu -- II. Myths and reality : significance imparted to landscape by myth, line of distinction between the mythical and the actual occurrences, magical power and muthical atmosphere, the three strata of Trobriand myths -- III. -- V. The myths of the Kula -- III. Survey of Kula mythology and its geographical distribution. The story of Gere'u of Muyuwa (Woodlark Island). The two stories of Tokosikuna of Digumenu and Gumasila -- IV. The Kudayuri myth of the flying canoe. Commentary and analysis of this myth. Association between the canoe and the flying witches. Mythology and the Lukuba clan. -- V. The myth of Kasabwaybwayreta and the necklace Gumakarakedakeda. Comparison these stories -- VI. Sociological analysis of the myths : influence of the Kula myths upon native outlook, myth and custom -- VII. The relation between myth and actuality restated -- VIII. The story, the natural monuments and the religious ceremonial of the mythical personalities Atu'a'ine, Aturamo'a and their sister Sinatemubadiye'i. Other rocks of similar traditional nature -- Ch. XIII. ON THE BEACH OF SARUBWOYNA -- I. The halt on the beach. The beauty magic. Some incantations quoted. The spell of the ta'uya 9conch shell) -- II. The magical onset on the Koya. Psychological analysis of this magic -- III. The Gwara (taboo) and the Ka'ubana'I spell -- Ch. XIV. THE KULA IN DOBU -- TECHNICALITIES OF THE EXCHANGE -- I. Reception in Dobu -- II. The main transactions of the Kula and the subsidiary gifts and exchanges: some general reflections on the driving force of the Kula, regulations of the main transaction, vaga (opening gift) and yotile (return gift), the sollicitory gifts (pokala, kwaypoly, kaributu, korotomna), intermediary gifts (basi) and final clinching gifts (kudu), the other articles some-times exchanged in the main transaction of the Kula (doga, samakupa, beku), commercial honour and ethics of the Kula -- III. The Kula proceedings in Dobu : wooing the partner, kwoygapani magic, the subsidiary trade, roaming the Boyowans in the Dobu distric -- Ch. XV. THE JOURNEY HOME -- THE FISHING AND WORKING OF THE KALOMA SHELL -- I. Visits made on the return trip. Some articles acquired -- II. The spondylus shell fishing in Sanaroa lagoon and in home waters : its general character and magic, the Kaloma myth, consecutive account of the technicalities, ceremonial and magic of the diving for the shell -- III. Technology, economics and sociology of the production fo the discs and necklaces from the shell -- IV. Tanarere, display of the haul. Arrival fo the party home to Sinaketa -- Ch. XVI. THE RETURN VISIT OF THE DOBUANS TO SINAKETA -- I. The uvalaku (ceremonial expedition) from Dobu to Southern Boyowa : the preparations in Dobu and Sanaroa, preparations in Gumasila, the excitement, the spreading and convergence of news, arrival of the Dobuan fleet in Nabwagets -- II. Preparations in Sinaketa for the reception of the visiting party. The Dobuans arrive. The scene at Kaykuyawa Point. The ceremonial reception. Speeches and gifts. The three days' sojurn of the Dobuans in Sinaketa. Manner of living. Exchange of gifts and barter -- III. Results show at the tanarere -- Ch. XVII. MAGIC AND THE KULA -- I. The subject matter of Boyowan magic. Its association with all the vital activities and with the unaccountable aspects of reality -- II. -- V. The native conception of magic. Its association with all the vital activities and with unaccountable aspects of reality. The methods of arriving at its knowledge. -- III. Native views about the original sources of magic. Its primeval character. Inadmissibility to the native of spontaneous generation in magic. Magic and myth and their super-normal atmosphere. -- IV. The magical acts : spell and rite, relation between these two factors, spells uttered directly without a concomitant rite, spells accompanied by simple rite of impregnation, spells accompanied by a rite of transference, spells accompanied by offerings and invocations, summary of this survey. -- V. Place where magic is stored in the human anatomy -- VI. Condition of the performer. Taboos and observances. Sociological position. Actual descent and magical filiation -- VII. Definition of systematic magic. The "systems" of canoe magic and Kula magic. -- VIII. Syupernormal or supernatural character of magic, emotional reaction of the natives to certain forms of magic, the kariyala (magical portent), role of ancestral spirits, native terminology -- IX. Ceremonial setting of magic -- X. Institution of taboo, supported by magic. Kaytubutabu and kaytapaku. -- XI. Purchase of certain forms of magic. Payments for magical services -- XII. Brief summary -- Ch. XVIII. THE POWER OF WORDS IN MAGIC : SOME LINGUISTIC DATA -- I. Study of linguistic data in magic to throw light on native ideas about the power of words -- II. the text of the wayugo spell with literal translation -- III. linguistic analysis of it u'ula (exordium) -- IV. Vocal technique of reciting a spell. Analysis of the tapwana (main parts) and dogina (final parts) -- V. The text of the Sulumwoya spell and its analysis -- VI.-XII. Linguistic data referring to the other spells mentioned in this volume and some general inferences -- VI. The tokway spell and the opening phrases of the canoe spells -- VII. The tapwana (main parts) of the canoe spells. -- VIII. The end parts (dogina) of these spells -- IX. The u'ula of the nwasila spells -- X. The tapwana and the dogina of these spells -- XI. The kayga'u spells -- XII. Summary of the results of this linguistic survey -- XIII. Substances used in these magical rites -- XIV.-XVIII. Analysis of some non-magical linguistic texts, to illustrate ethnographic method and native way of thinking -- XIV. General remarks about certain aspects of method -- XV. Text No. I, its literal and free translation -- XVI. Commentary. -- Texts No. 2 and 3 translated and commented upon -- Ch. XIX. THE INLAND KULA -- I. To'uluwa, the chief of Kiriwina, on a visit to Sinaketa. The decay of his power. Some melancholy reflections about the folly of destroying the native order of things and of undermining native authority as now prevailing -- II. The division into "Kula communities", the three types of Kula, with respect to this division. The overseas Kula. -- III. The inland Kula between two "Kula communities" and within such a unit -- IV. The "Kula communities" in Boyowa (Trobriand Islands) -- Ch. XX. EXPEDITIONS BETWEEN KIRIWINA AND KITAVA -- I. -- II. Account of an expedition form Kirivina to Kitava -- I. Fixing dates and preparing districts -- II. Preliminaries of the journey. Departure from Kaulukuba Beach. Sailing. Analogies and differences between these expeditions and those of the Sinaketans to Dobu. Entering the village. The youlawada custom. Sojourn in Kitava and return. -- III. The So'i (mortuary feast) in the Eastern district (Kitava to Muyuwa) and its association with the Kula -- Ch. XXI. THE REMAINING BRANCHES AND OFFSHOOTS FO THE KULA -- I. Rapid survey of the routes between Woodlark Island (Murua or Muyuwa) and the engineer group and between this latter and Dobu -- II. The ordinary trade carried on between these communities -- III. An offshoot of the Kula, trading expeditions between the Western Trobriand (Kavataria and Kayleula) and the Wester d'Entrecasteaux -- IV. Production of mwali (armshells) -- V. Some other offshoots and leakages of the Kula ring. Entry of the Kula vaygu'a into the ring -- XXII. THE MEANING OF THE KULA.
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INTROD. THE SUBJECT, METHOD AND SCOPE OF THIS ENQUIRY -- I. Sailing, and trading in the South Seas ; the Kula -- II. Method in ethnography -- III. Starting field work -- IV. Life in a tent among the natives. Mechanism of "getting in touch" with them -- V. Active methods of research. Order and consistency in savage cultures. Methodological consequences of this truth -- VI. Formulating the principles of tribal constitution and of the anatomy of culture. Method of inference from statistic accumulation of concrete data. Uses of synoptic charts -- VII. Presentation of the intimate touches of native life : of types of behaviour. Method of systematic fixing of impressions : of detailed, consecutive records. Importance of personal participation in native life -- VIII. Recording of stereotyped manners of thinking and feeling. Corpus inscriptionum kiriwinensium -- IX. Summary of argument. The native's vision of his world -- Ch. I. THE COUNTRY AND INHABITANTS OF THE KULA DISTRICT -- I. Racial division in Eastern New Guinea. Seligman's classification. The Kula natives -- II. Sub-divisions of the Kula district -- III. Scenery at the Eastern end of New Guinea. Villages of the S. Massim, their customs and social institution. -- IV. The d'Entrecasteaux Archipelago. The tribes of Dobu. The mythological associations of their country. Some of their customs and institutions. Sorcery. A vision of Sarubwoyna beach -- V. Sailing North. The amphlett group. Savage monopolists -- Ch. II. THE NATIVES OF THE TROBRIAND ISLANDS -- I. Arrival in the coral Islands. First impression of the native. Some significant appearances and their deeper meaning -- II. Position of women, their life and conduct before and after marriage -- III. Further exploration in the village. A cross country walk. Gardens and gardening -- IV. The native's working power, their motives and incentives to work. Magic and work. A digression on primitive economics -- V. Chieftainship : power through wealth, a plutocratic community. List of the various provinces and political divisions in the Trobriands -- VI. Totemism, the solidarity of clans and the bonds of kinship -- VII. Spirits of the dead. The overweening importance of magic. Black magic. The prowling sorcerers and the flying witches. The malevolent visitors fro the South, and epidemics -- VIII. The Eastern neighbours of the Trobrianders. The remaining districts of the Kula -- Ch. III. THE ESSENTIALS OF THE KULA -- I. A concise definition of the Kula -- II. Its economic character -- III. The articles exchanged ; the conception of vaygua -- IV. The main rules and aspects of the Kula : the sociological aspect (partnership), direction of movement, nature of Kula ownership -- V. The act of exchange, its regulations, the light it throws on the acquisitive and "communistic" tendencies of the native, its concrete outlines, the sollicitory gifts -- VI. The associated activities and the secondary aspects of the Kula : construction of canoes, subsidiary trade -- their true relation to the Kula, the ceremonial, mythology and magic associated with the Kula, the mortuary taboos and distributions, in their relation to the Kula -- Ch. IV. CANOES AND SAILING -- I. The value and importance of a canoe to a native. Its appearance, the impressions and emotions it arouses in those who use or own it. The atmosphere of romance which surrounds it for the native -- II. Analysis of its construction, in relation to its function. The three types of canoes in the Trobiand Islands -- III. Sociology of a large canoe (masawa) -- III. A. Social organisation of labour in construction a canoe : the division of functions, the magical regulation of work -- IV. B. Sociology of a large canoe ownership, the toli-relationship, the toliwage "master" or 'owner" of a canoe, the four privileges and functions of a toliwaga -- V. C. The social division of functions in manning and sailing a canoe. Statistical data about the Trobriand shipping -- Ch. V. THE CEREMONIAL BUILDING OF A WAGA -- I. Construction of canoes as part of the Kula proceedings. Magic and mythology. The preparatory and the ceremonial stage of construction -- II. The first stage : expelling the wood spirit Tokway, transport of the log, the hollowing-out of the log and the associated magic -- III. The second stage : the inaugural rite of Kula magic, the native at grips with problems of construction, the wayugo creeper, the magical spell uttered over it, caulking, the three magical exorcisms -- IV. Some general remarks about the two stages of canoe-building and the concomitant magic. Bulubwalata (evil magic) of canoes. The ornamental prowboards, The Dobuan and the Muruwan types of overseas canoe -- Ch. VI. LAUNCHING OF A CANOE AND CEREMONIAL VISITING -- TRIBAL ECONOMICS IN THE TROBRIANDS -- I. The procedure and magic at launching. The trial run (tasasoria). Account of the launching and tasasoria seen on the beach of Kualukuba. Reflections on the decay of customs under European influence -- II. Digression on the sociology of work : organisation of labour, forms of communial labour, payment for work -- III. The custom of ceremonial visiting (kabigidoya), local trade, done on such expeditions -- IV -- VII. Digression on gifts, payments, and exchange -- IV. Attitude on the native towards wealth. Desire of display. Enhancement of social prestige through wealth. The motives of accumulating food stuffs, The vilamalya (magic of plenty). The handling of yams, Psychology of eating. Value of manufactured goods, psychologically analysed -- V. Motives for exchange. Giving, as satisfaction of vanity and as display of power. Fallacy of the "economically isolated individual" or "household". Absence of gain in exchange. -- VI. Exchange of gifts and barter. List of gifts, payments and commercial transactions ; 1. Pure gifts ; 2. Customary payments, repaid irregularly and without strict equivalents ; 3. Payments for services rendered ; 4. Gifts returned in strictly equivalent from ; 5. Exchange of material goods against privileges, titles and non-material possessions ; 6. Ceremonial barter with deferred payment ; 7. Trade pure and simple -- VII. Economic duties corresponding to various social ties, table of eight classes of social relationship, table of eight classes of social relationship, characterised by definite economic obligations -- Ch. VII. THE DEPARTURE OF AN OVERSEAS EXPEDITION ; Scene laid in Sinaketa. The local chiefs. Stir in the village. The social differentiation of the sailing party. Magical rites, associated with the preparing and loading of a canoe. The sulu-mwoya rite. The magical bundle (lilava). The compartments of a canoe and the gebobo spell. Farewells on the beach. -- Ch. VIII. THE FIRST HALT OF THE FLEET ON MUWA -- i. The definitio of a uvalaku (ceremonial, competitive expedition) -- II. The sagali (ceremonial distribution) -- III. The magic of sailing -- Ch. IX. SAILING ON THE SEA-ARM OF PILOLU -- I. The landscape. Mythological geography of the regions beyond. -- II. Sailing : the winds, navigation, technique of sailing a canoe and its dangers -- III. The customs and taboos of sailing. The beliefs in dreadful monsters lurking in the sea -- Ch. X. THE STORY OF SHIPWRECK -- I. The flying witches, mulukwausi or yoyova : essentials of the belief, initiation and education of a yoyova (witch), secrecy surrounding this condition, manner of practising this witch-craft, actual cases -- II. The flying witches at sea and in ship-wreck. Other dangerous agents. The kayga'u magic, its modes of operation -- III. Account of the preparatory rites of kayga'u. Some incantations quoted -- IV. The story of ship-wreck and rescue -- V. The spell of the rescuing giant fish. The myth and the magical formula of Tokulubwaydoga -- Ch. XI. IN THE AMPHLETTS -- SOCIOLOGY OF THE KULA -- I. Arrival in Gumasila. Example of a Kula conversation. Trobrianders on long visits in the Amphletts

Sociology of the Kula ; 1. Sociological limitations to participation in the Kula ; 2. Relation of partnership ; 3. Entering the Kula relationship ; 4. Participation of women in the Kula -- III. The natives of the Amphletts : their industries and trade, pottery, importing the clay, technology of pot-making, commercial relations with the surrounding districts -- IV. Drift of migrations and cultural influences in this province -- Ch. XII. IN TEWARA AND SANAROA -- MYTHOLOGY OF THE KULA -- I. Sailing under the lee of Koytabu. The cannibals of the unexplored jungle. Trobriand traditions and legends about them. The history and song of Gumagabu -- II. Myths and reality : significance imparted to landscape by myth, line of distinction between the mythical and the actual occurrences, magical power and muthical atmosphere, the three strata of Trobriand myths -- III. -- V. The myths of the Kula -- III. Survey of Kula mythology and its geographical distribution. The story of Gere'u of Muyuwa (Woodlark Island). The two stories of Tokosikuna of Digumenu and Gumasila -- IV. The Kudayuri myth of the flying canoe. Commentary and analysis of this myth. Association between the canoe and the flying witches. Mythology and the Lukuba clan. -- V. The myth of Kasabwaybwayreta and the necklace Gumakarakedakeda. Comparison these stories -- VI. Sociological analysis of the myths : influence of the Kula myths upon native outlook, myth and custom -- VII. The relation between myth and actuality restated -- VIII. The story, the natural monuments and the religious ceremonial of the mythical personalities Atu'a'ine, Aturamo'a and their sister Sinatemubadiye'i. Other rocks of similar traditional nature -- Ch. XIII. ON THE BEACH OF SARUBWOYNA -- I. The halt on the beach. The beauty magic. Some incantations quoted. The spell of the ta'uya 9conch shell) -- II. The magical onset on the Koya. Psychological analysis of this magic -- III. The Gwara (taboo) and the Ka'ubana'I spell -- Ch. XIV. THE KULA IN DOBU -- TECHNICALITIES OF THE EXCHANGE -- I. Reception in Dobu -- II. The main transactions of the Kula and the subsidiary gifts and exchanges: some general reflections on the driving force of the Kula, regulations of the main transaction, vaga (opening gift) and yotile (return gift), the sollicitory gifts (pokala, kwaypoly, kaributu, korotomna), intermediary gifts (basi) and final clinching gifts (kudu), the other articles some-times exchanged in the main transaction of the Kula (doga, samakupa, beku), commercial honour and ethics of the Kula -- III. The Kula proceedings in Dobu : wooing the partner, kwoygapani magic, the subsidiary trade, roaming the Boyowans in the Dobu distric -- Ch. XV. THE JOURNEY HOME -- THE FISHING AND WORKING OF THE KALOMA SHELL -- I. Visits made on the return trip. Some articles acquired -- II. The spondylus shell fishing in Sanaroa lagoon and in home waters : its general character and magic, the Kaloma myth, consecutive account of the technicalities, ceremonial and magic of the diving for the shell -- III. Technology, economics and sociology of the production fo the discs and necklaces from the shell -- IV. Tanarere, display of the haul. Arrival fo the party home to Sinaketa -- Ch. XVI. THE RETURN VISIT OF THE DOBUANS TO SINAKETA -- I. The uvalaku (ceremonial expedition) from Dobu to Southern Boyowa : the preparations in Dobu and Sanaroa, preparations in Gumasila, the excitement, the spreading and convergence of news, arrival of the Dobuan fleet in Nabwagets -- II. Preparations in Sinaketa for the reception of the visiting party. The Dobuans arrive. The scene at Kaykuyawa Point. The ceremonial reception. Speeches and gifts. The three days' sojurn of the Dobuans in Sinaketa. Manner of living. Exchange of gifts and barter -- III. Results show at the tanarere -- Ch. XVII. MAGIC AND THE KULA -- I. The subject matter of Boyowan magic. Its association with all the vital activities and with the unaccountable aspects of reality -- II. -- V. The native conception of magic. Its association with all the vital activities and with unaccountable aspects of reality. The methods of arriving at its knowledge. -- III. Native views about the original sources of magic. Its primeval character. Inadmissibility to the native of spontaneous generation in magic. Magic and myth and their super-normal atmosphere. -- IV. The magical acts : spell and rite, relation between these two factors, spells uttered directly without a concomitant rite, spells accompanied by simple rite of impregnation, spells accompanied by a rite of transference, spells accompanied by offerings and invocations, summary of this survey. -- V. Place where magic is stored in the human anatomy -- VI. Condition of the performer. Taboos and observances. Sociological position. Actual descent and magical filiation -- VII. Definition of systematic magic. The "systems" of canoe magic and Kula magic. -- VIII. Syupernormal or supernatural character of magic, emotional reaction of the natives to certain forms of magic, the kariyala (magical portent), role of ancestral spirits, native terminology -- IX. Ceremonial setting of magic -- X. Institution of taboo, supported by magic. Kaytubutabu and kaytapaku. -- XI. Purchase of certain forms of magic. Payments for magical services -- XII. Brief summary -- Ch. XVIII. THE POWER OF WORDS IN MAGIC : SOME LINGUISTIC DATA -- I. Study of linguistic data in magic to throw light on native ideas about the power of words -- II. the text of the wayugo spell with literal translation -- III. linguistic analysis of it u'ula (exordium) -- IV. Vocal technique of reciting a spell. Analysis of the tapwana (main parts) and dogina (final parts) -- V. The text of the Sulumwoya spell and its analysis -- VI.-XII. Linguistic data referring to the other spells mentioned in this volume and some general inferences -- VI. The tokway spell and the opening phrases of the canoe spells -- VII. The tapwana (main parts) of the canoe spells. -- VIII. The end parts (dogina) of these spells -- IX. The u'ula of the nwasila spells -- X. The tapwana and the dogina of these spells -- XI. The kayga'u spells -- XII. Summary of the results of this linguistic survey -- XIII. Substances used in these magical rites -- XIV.-XVIII. Analysis of some non-magical linguistic texts, to illustrate ethnographic method and native way of thinking -- XIV. General remarks about certain aspects of method -- XV. Text No. I, its literal and free translation -- XVI. Commentary. -- Texts No. 2 and 3 translated and commented upon -- Ch. XIX. THE INLAND KULA -- I. To'uluwa, the chief of Kiriwina, on a visit to Sinaketa. The decay of his power. Some melancholy reflections about the folly of destroying the native order of things and of undermining native authority as now prevailing -- II. The division into "Kula communities", the three types of Kula, with respect to this division. The overseas Kula. -- III. The inland Kula between two "Kula communities" and within such a unit -- IV. The "Kula communities" in Boyowa (Trobriand Islands) -- Ch. XX. EXPEDITIONS BETWEEN KIRIWINA AND KITAVA -- I. -- II. Account of an expedition form Kirivina to Kitava -- I. Fixing dates and preparing districts -- II. Preliminaries of the journey. Departure from Kaulukuba Beach. Sailing. Analogies and differences between these expeditions and those of the Sinaketans to Dobu. Entering the village. The youlawada custom. Sojourn in Kitava and return. -- III. The So'i (mortuary feast) in the Eastern district (Kitava to Muyuwa) and its association with the Kula -- Ch. XXI. THE REMAINING BRANCHES AND OFFSHOOTS FO THE KULA -- I. Rapid survey of the routes between Woodlark Island (Murua or Muyuwa) and the engineer group and between this latter and Dobu -- II. The ordinary trade carried on between these communities -- III. An offshoot of the Kula, trading expeditions between the Western Trobriand (Kavataria and Kayleula) and the Wester d'Entrecasteaux -- IV. Production of mwali (armshells) -- V. Some other offshoots and leakages of the Kula ring. Entry of the Kula vaygu'a into the ring -- XXII. THE MEANING OF THE KULA.