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Bronislaw MalinowskiArgonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (1922)
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Index of Terms
Basi
In the Kula, an intermediary gift given as a token of good faith, with the assumption that a larger gift will be given later.
Baloma
Spirits of the dead.
Bomala Lilava
The taboos of the magic bundle (lilava). The term for general taboos about the Kula.
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