The Gift by Guyer Jane I.; Mauss Marcel; Guyer Jane I

Author:Guyer, Jane I.; Mauss, Marcel; Guyer, Jane I.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HAU
Published: 2018-06-21T16:28:38+00:00

31. Plate XIX. It seems that Trobriand women, like the “princesses” of the American Northwest, and several other persons, serve to some extent as a way of displaying ostentatious objects, not to mention the fact that they also “enchant” them in this way. Cf. Thurnwald, Forschungen. Salomo Inseln, Vol I, pp. 138, 159, v. 7.

32. See later, p. 000, n. 0.

33. See map, p. 82. Cf. “Kula,” Man, 1920, p. 101. Malinowski tells us that he has not found the mythical or other reasons for the direction of this circulation. Finding them would be of great importance. For, if the reason lay in the orientation of these objects, in that they tended to return to a point of origin and follow a path of mythical origin, this fact would be prodigiously similar to the Polynesian one, and to the Maori hau.

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