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''Coral Gardens and Their Magic'', properly ''Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands'', is the final book in anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski's ethnographic trilogy on the lives of the Trobriand Islanders. It concentrates on the cultivation practices the Trobriand Islanders used to grow yams, taro, bananas and palms.〔 It describes the gardens in which the Trobrianders grew food as more than merely utilitarian spaces, even as works of art. In 1988 Alfred Gell called the book "still the best account of any primitive technological-cum-magical system, and unlikely ever to be superseded in this respect". The book has been described as Malinowski's ''magnum opus''. ==Overview== The book consists of seven parts divided over two volumes. Volume I, ''The Description of Gardening'', contains the introduction and parts one to three, and volume II, ''The Language of Magic and Gardening'', parts four to seven. *Part One: "Introduction: Tribal economics and social organisation of the Trobrianders" This part introduces the climate, industry, and gardening arrangements of the Trobriands and supplies initial anthropological data on the Trobriand Islanders, including by sketching out their social organization and economic institutions. * Part Two: "Gardens and their magic on a coral atoll" This part describes the role of magic in Trobriand gardening, the rites it involves, Trobriand theories of land tenure, and the technology and spaces associated with gardening practices. It also considers the methodological limitations of various approaches to ethnographic fieldwork, especially in relation to terminology. * Part Three: "Documents and appendices" collection of documents, including plans of buildings, lineage and title diagrams, explanations of the calculation of gift obligations, and a set of notes on ethnographic methodology and its limitations. * Part Four: "An ethnographic theory of language and some practical corollaries" This part considers language as a tool, a document, and a cultural reality. It discusses the difficulties of translation and the overlap and boundaries of concepts, and brings context to bear on interpretation. for the anthropologist and for the speakers. It engages with the question of pragmatics, and of the way meaning relates to words * Part Five: "Corpus inscriptionum agriculturae quiriviniensis; or the language of gardens" A linguistic supplement, outlining a vocabulary of Trobriand gardening terminology and magical words. * Part Six: "An ethnographic theory of the magical word" This part advances a theory of magical language, both in the Trobriand case specifically and in general terms. Malinowski argues that Trobriand magic spells, like all forms of language, must be understood in context, as "verbal acts", with a predominantly pragmatic function. Language, including magical language, is intended primarily not to communicate thought, but to bring about practical effects. This theory of a pragmatic function of language as a functional aspect of human behaviour, is an early anthropological contribution to the theory of pragmatics.〔 * Part Seven: "Magical formulae" This section presents some Trobriand magical spells, together with Malinowski's word-by-word analysis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coral Gardens and Their Magic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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