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This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands.
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Index
Abortion, 167
Adolescents, amorous life of, 53 ff. (And see Bachelors and Girls)
Adultery:
Cases of, 98–99, 123; among Chief’s wives, 117–119, 273, 411, 446
Cat’s-cradle representing, 337–338
Child-bearing without husband’s intercourse not attributed to, 164
General attitude to, 97–98, 386, 388; in case of pregnant woman, 291
Native word for, 58, 62; so-called, 90
Punishment for, 121; formerly death, 121, 271, 273, 386; semi-public shaming, 408
Taboo on, 384
Affection: physiological seat of, 144; usually lasting in Trobriand marriages, 96, 138
Age: disparity in infant betrothals, limit of, 89; Table showing designations for, 51
Albinos, 150; native name for, 252; their appearance, 255; horror of, 157; ostracism of, 68, 243, 246–247; case of incest with, 477
Ambition and personal pride as incentive, 55, 105, 108–109
Amorous expeditions, see Katuyausi and Ulatile
Amphlett Is., 165, 235, 350; garden magic in, 37 n.; sexual and social intercourse in, 220, 262–263
Anatomy, human, parts of, distinguished and named, 141
Ancestral spirits, see under Spirits
Animals, ignorance as to propagation of, 162–164 (and see Dogs and Pigs)
Anointing (putuma), 255; ritual, 298
Areca palm leaves for dress, 255
Argonauts of the Western Pacific cited, 2 n., 7 n., 20 n., 30 n., 36 n., 38 n., 77 n., 99 n. 101 n., 108 n., 113 n., 131 n., 178 n.1, 182 n., 186 and n., 187 n., 189 n., 194 n., 210 n., 212 n., 214 n., 216 n. 242 n., 244 n., 245 n., 270 n. 291 and n., 296 n., 297 n., 329 n., 330 n., 351 n., 378 n.2 414 n., 455 n.1, 476 n.1
Armlets: making of, 22; of conus shell, 77; aromatic leaves worn in (vana), 187, 198, 210, 228, 257, 378
Arms (limbs), affection associated with, 141, 144
Aromatic herbs:...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Foreword to the Third Edition
- Foreword to the First Edition
- I: The Relations Between the Sexes in Tribal Life
- II: The Status of Woman in Native Society
- III: Prenuptial Intercourse
- IV: The Avenues to Marriage
- V: Marriage
- VI: Divorce and the Dissolution of Marriage by Death
- VII: Procreation and Pregnancy in Native Belief and Custom
- VIII: Pregnancy and Childbirth
- IX: Customary Forms of Licence
- X: Lovemaking and the Psychology of Erotic Life
- XI: The Magic of Love and Beauty
- XII: Erotic Dreams and Fantasies
- XIII: Morals and Manners
- XIV: A Savage Myth of Incest
- Index