Title Page : NOTES BALOMA; THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD IN THE TROBRIAND ISLANDS 1 This article contains part of the results of ethnographical work in British New Guinea carried on in connection with the Robert Mond Travelling Studentship (University of London), and the Constance Hutchinson Scholarship of the Lond...
Next. Chapter Iii : CHAPTER III. Until this occurs the "baloma" is by no means entirely out of touch with the living world. He visits his native village from time to time, and he is visited by his surviving friends and relatives. Some of these latter possess the faculty of getting right into the shadowy world...
Next. Chapter Vii : CHAPTER VII. It might seem quite safe to say that the belief in reincarnation, and the views about a spirit child being inserted into, or entering the womb of the mother, exclude any knowledge of the physiological process of impregnation. But any drawing of conclusions, or arguing by the law...
Next. Chapter Ii : CHAPTER II. Having dealt with the "kosi", the frivolous and meek ghost of the deceased who vanishes after a few days of irrelevant existence, and with the "mulukuausi", the ghoulish, dangerous women who feed on carrion and attack the living, we may pass to the main form of the spirit, the "baloma"...
Untitled : BALOMA; THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD IN THE TROBRIAND ISLANDS BY BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI Originally Published In "The Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute Of Great Britain And Ireland", Volume 46. [1916] The Trobriand Islanders of the Melanesian region, as well as many other cultures...
Next. Chapter V : CHAPTER V. Magic plays an enormous part in the tribal life of the Kiriwinians (as it undoubtedly does with the majority of native peoples). All important economic activities are fringed with magic, especially such as imply pronounced p. 191 elements of chance, venture, or danger. Gardening is...
Next. Chapter Vi : CHAPTER VI. All these data bearing upon the relations between the "baloma" and the living, are, in a way, a digression from the story of the afterlife of the "baloma" in Tuma, and to this let us now return. We left the "baloma" settled to his new life in the nether world, more or less comforted...
Title Page. Part 1 : BALOMA; THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD IN THE TROBRIAND ISLANDS BY BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI Originally Published In "The Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute Of Great Britain And Ireland", Volume 46. [1916] (See Endnote 1) Scanned , January 2003. J.B. Hare, Redactor. This Text Is In The Public...
Next. Chapter Viii : CHAPTER VIII. Besides the concrete data about native beliefs which have been given above, there is another set of facts of no less importance which must be discussed before the present subject can be considered exhausted. I mean the general sociological laws that have to be grasped and framed...
Next. Chapter I : CHAPTER I. Among the natives of Kiriwina, death is the starting point of two series of events which run almost independently of each other. Death affects the deceased individual; his soul ("baloma" or "balom") leaves the body and goes to another world, there to lead a shadowy existence. His passing...
Next. Chapter Iv : CHAPTER IV. Let us return to the intercourse between living men and the spirits. All that was said above on this subject refers to what takes place in dreams or visions or to what is effected by furtive, short glimpses of spirits, as seen by men while awake and in a normal state of mind. All this...
