Coral Gardens and Their Magic - A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands - Vol II: The Language O e-bog

This is volume II of "e;Coral Gardens and Their Magic"e;, dealing with Kilivila terms related to gardening and agriculture. Kilivila is the language spoken on the Trobriand islands, a group of islands off the east cost of New Guinea. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in anthropology and Trobriand culture, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "e;Language as Tool, Document, and Cultural Reality"e;, "e;The Translation of Untranslatable words"e;, "e;The Context of Words and the Context of Facts"e;, "e;Th e Pragmatic Setting of Utterances"e;, "e;Meaning as Function of Words"e;, "e;The Sources of Meaning in the Speech of Infants"e;, "e;Gaps, Gluts and Vagaries of a Native Terminology"e;, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.