The Tuma underworld of love : erotic and other narrative songs of the Trobriand islanders and their spirits of the dead / / Gunter Senft.

The Trobriand Islanders' eschatological belief system explains what happens when someone dies. Bronislaw Malinowski described essentials of this eschatology in his articles ""Baloma: the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands"" and ""Myth in Primitive Psychol...

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Superior document:Culture and language use ; v. 5
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Culture and language use ; v. 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (156 p.)
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