Trobriand Islands (trō`brēănd', trō'brēănd`), small volcanic island group off SE New Guinea, part of Papua New Guinea. Kiriwana is the largest of the group's 22 islands. Yams, pearl shell, and trepang are the major products. The islands were made famous in the writings of anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski Malinowski, Bronislaw , 1884–1942, English anthropologist, b. Poland, Ph.D. Univ. of Kraków, 1908. Working in the field of cultural anthropology, he gained renown through his studies (1914–18) of the indigenous peoples of the Trobriand Islands off
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Trobriand Islands

or Kiriwina Islands

Group of small coral islands, Solomon Sea, South Pacific Ocean, Papua New Guinea. The islands are low-lying with coral reefs. The group has a total land area of about 170 sq mi (440 sq km). The largest, Kiriwina, is an atoll 30 mi (48 km) long and 3–10 mi (5–16 km) wide, covered largely with swamp; it served as an air and naval base for the Allies in 1943. Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski conducted research among the Trobriand islanders 1915–18.

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Kinds of gifts A gift may be one of an ordinary object, an object created for the express purpose of gift exchange, such as the armbands and necklaces in the Trobriand Islands Kula exchange.

Promotional Corporate by kapil khurana / Business community

00pm FRESH from their tribal cricket tour on the South Sea island of Trobriand, the six athletes compete with professional wrestlers in the tribal arenas of Senegal, West Africa.

SATELLITE PICK OF THE DAY by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

In his essay 'Baloma: The Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands', first published in 1916, Malinowski makes a number of important points of continuing significance to museum practice across the world.

Australian Indigenous art in Paris: M. C. Dillon reads the ... by Dillon, M.C. / Arena Magazine

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