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Publication details [#13930]

Senft, Gunter. 1995. 'Crime and Custom...' auf den Trobriand-Inseln: Der Fall Tokurasi. [Crime and custom on the Trobriand Islands: The Case of Tokurasi.] Anthropos 90 : 17–25.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
German
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Anthropos-Verlag

Annotation

The paper presents a mythical story about the revenge of a man whom his brothers-in-law attempted to kill: the protagonist, a gifted magician, petrifies his opponents; the rocks are one of the landmarks of the Kaile’una Island coast. The text presented illustrates how much information about cultural values, rules, and regulations are encoded even in a relatively short piece of oral tradition.