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Trobriand Islander

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Trobriand Islander [ˈtrəʊbrɪˌænd]
n
(Social Science / Peoples) a native or inhabitant of the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea


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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.
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.
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.
 
 
 
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