Trobriand Islander

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Trobriand Islander [ˈtrəʊbrɪˌænd]

(Social Science / Peoples) a native or inhabitant of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea

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No references found			A more inviting prospect lies in anthropological accounts of the Trobriand Islanders for whom time was like a "puddle in which one sat, splashed, or wallowed," that is, discontinuous and organized in qualitative wholes. The tyranny of time: let's cast it off by Callahan, Sidney / Commonweal For instance, the Trobriand Islanders, whom the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski studied, have no pornography, nor do they have any interest in it, but they have a lot of sexual license and the sexes live fairly equally. Porn again by Colman, David / Artforum International After Paris he was not awed by the Bloomsbury intelligentsia: "Its religious requirements appeared to be satisfied by Frazer's Golden Bough and its sexual mores seemed to derive from the Trobriand Islanders. The Use of Memory by O'Collins, Gerald / Commonweal			trivalve Trivalvular Trivandrum Trivant Triverbial trivet Trivet table trivia trivial trivial name Trivial Pursuit trivialise trivialism triviality trivialization trivialize trivially Trivialness trivium triweekly TRM tRNA Troad Troas troat Trobriand Islander Trobriand Islands trocar Trocha trochaic trochal Trochal disk trochanter Trochanteric Trochantine Trochar troche trochee trochelminth Trochil Trochili Trochilic trochilics Trochilidae Trochilidist Trochilos trochilus Troching Trochiscus Trochisk Trochite			TRNSYS TRNX TRO TRO TRO TRO Tro På Det TRO/TP Troškunai Troa TROAA Troad Troad TROAE Troano Codex Troas Troas troat TROB Trobador Trobador Trobadors Trobadors Trobadour Trobadour TROBI Trobicin Trobicin Trobriand Trobriand Trobriand Islander Trobriand Islands Trobriand Islands Trobriander Trobriander Trobriands Trobriands Troc TROCA trocar trocar trocar trocar trocar site metastasis trocarization trocars trocars trocars Trocha Trochacea trochaic trochaic trochal trochal disc trochal disc trochal disk trochal disk trochanter trochanter trochanter trochanter major

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