Codrington 1891

Links

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References

• 4.2 Fish
  • Flying fishes (Exocoetidae)
• 4.5 Mammals, reptiles, amphibians
  • Amphibians
• 5.5 Health and disease
  • Concept of illness
  • Spraying masticated substances on to affected part
  • Massage
• 6.2 Kinship
  • Nakanai terms and their definition
  • Reconstructing the Proto Oceanic kinship terminology
  • Appendix to chapter 2: Ethnographic sources
• 6.4 Social rank and lunations
  • Sa’a (Malaita, Solomon Is.)
• 6.6 Recreation: Music, song, dance, games
  • Bow
• 6.7 The spirit world
  • Duality of the soul
• 6.8 Magic and the supernatural
  • The invocation
  • The rite
  • First fruits
  • The practitioners
• 6.9 Mana
  • The *mana concept in Proto Eastern Oceanic
• 6.11 Seasonal cycles and lunations
  • Years and seasons
  • The Pleiades
  • Palolo risings
  • Yam or taro cultivation
  • Vanuatu
• 6.14 Counting: Numerals and numeral classifiers
  • The origin of Oceanic enumerative classifiers
• 6.15 Digit tallying
  • Digit-tallying practices