In:The Tuma Underworld of Love: Erotic and other narrative songs of the Trobriand Islanders and their spirits of the dead
Gunter Senft
[Culture and Language Use 5] 2011
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 29 September 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.5.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Death on the Trobriand Islands and the Trobriand Islanders’ belief in a “baloma” spirit
Chapter 2. The spirits of the dead and their underworld life on Tuma Island: Trobriand eschatology
Chapter 3. The wosi milamala
Chapter 4. The moribund language of the spirits of the dead and its consequences for the Trobriand Islanders’ culture
Appendix I
Appendix II
References
Index
