Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands by Bronisław Malinowski

Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands

Bronisław Malinowski

132 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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Among the natives of Kiriwina, death is the starting point of two series of events which run almost independently of each other. Death affects the deceased individual; his soul (baloma or balom) leaves the body and goes to another world, there to ...

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