Malinowski 1935

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References

Sections

• 1.5 Horticultural Practices
  • Storage: yam storehouse
  • Gaps in reconstructions
• 2.3 The Landscape
  • Introduction
• 3.9 Staple foods: root crops, bananas, breadfruit and sago
  • Yams, Dioscorea spp.
• 6.8 Magic and the supernatural
  • Offerings
  • First fruits
  • The practitioners
• 6.10 Tabu
  • Relationship with mana
• 6.11 Seasonal cycles and lunations
  • Kilivila and Muyuw

Words

• Kilivila: sopu the whole activity of planting, including preparing the hole, planting the seed or tuber, covering and mounding the soil