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    The Trobriand Islands are a 450-square-kilometre (174-square-mile) archipelago of coral atolls off the east coast of New Guinea. They are part of the...
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  • The people of the Trobriand Islands are mostly subsistence horticulturalists who live in traditional settlements. The social structure is based on matrilineal...
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  • Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism is an anthropological Documentary film about the people of the Trobriand Islands and their unique...
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  • Trobriand cricket refers to a unique version of the bat-and-ball sport cricket played by the Trobriand Islanders. They were first exposed to the game by...
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    Solomon Islands archipelago (northern part) Bougainville Buka Island Trobriand Islands Kiriwina Woodlark Island D'Entrecasteaux Islands Fergusson Island Goodenough...
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    Bronisław Malinowski (category Trobriand Islands)
    In 1914, he travelled to Australia. He conducted research in the Trobriand Islands and other regions in New Guinea and Melanesia where he stayed for...
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  • government agreed to give independence to Bougainville in 2027. In the Trobriand Islands, intertribal warfare was banned during Australian colonial rule and...
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    The Trobriand Islands rain forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southeastern Papua New Guinea. The islands of this ecoregion have...
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  • Labia stretching (category Culture of the Marquesas Islands)
    the University of Missouri. Bronisław Malinowski wrote about the Trobriand Islands in The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia: The body...
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    Kula ring (category Trobriand Islands)
    traced the network of exchanges of bracelets and necklaces across the Trobriand Islands, and established that they were part of a system of exchange (the...
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