**) an unusually extensive amount of ethnolinguistic data for its time, much of it relating to the spells the subjects used in their agricultural pursuits.
Alfred Gell called this book "the best account of any primitive technological-cum-magical system". It records (**) an unusually extensive amount of ethnolinguistic data for its time, much of it relating to the spells the subjects used in their agricultural pursuits. The third part of a trilogy, it was (*) published in 1935 and refers to the leader of its cultural subject as a "glorified brother-in-law" of all the islanders. It is divided into two volumes; the first focusing on descriptions of the unique agricultural landscape and methodology of its subject, and the second focusing on the language of these gardens. FTP, name this work that follows Argonauts of the Western Pacific and The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, the magnum opus of Bronislaw Malinowski.
Alfred Gell called this book "the best account of any primitive technological-cum-magical system".
Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands