| Author | Bronisław Malinowski |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Ethnography |
| Publisher | Routledge |
Publication date | 1935 |
| Media type | |
| OCLC | 180613846 |
| Preceded by | The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia |
Coral Gardens and Their Magic, properly Coral Gardens and Their Magic Volume I: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands and Coral Gardens and Their Magic Volume II: The Language of Magic and Gardening, is the final two-volume book in anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski's ethnographic trilogy on the lives of the Trobriand Islanders. It concentrates on the cultivation practices the Trobriand Islanders used to grow yams, taro, bananas and palms[1] which Malinowski's more famous ethnography Argonauts of the Western Pacific briefly mentioned in passing.[2] It describes the gardens in which the Trobrianders grew food as more than merely utilitarian spaces, even as works of art.[3] In 1988 Alfred Gell called the book "still the best account of any primitive technological-cum-magical system, and unlikely ever to be superseded in this respect".[4] The book has been described as Malinowski's magnum opus.[5]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Durantiwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Malinowski, Bronislaw (1966) [1922]. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge & Keepgan Paul Ltd. p. 59-60.
- ^ Ingold, Tim (1996). "Growing plants and raising animals: an anthropological perspective on domestication". The origins and spread of agriculture and pastoralism in Eurasia. Routledge. ISBN 1-85728-538-7.
- ^ Gell, Alfred (April 1988). "Technology and Magic". Anthropology Today. 4 (2): 9. doi:10.2307/3033230. JSTOR 3033230.
- ^ Glucklich, Ariel (1997). The end of magic. Oxford University Press. p. 43. ISBN 0-19-510879-5.