Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. Chapter 1. Death on the Trobriand Islands and the Trobriand Islanders’ belief in a “ baloma ” spirit 1
6. Chapter 2. The spirits of the dead and their underworld life on Tuma Island 15
7. Chapter 3. The wosi milamala 43
8. Chapter 4. The moribund language of the spirits of the dead and its consequences for the Trobriand Islanders’ culture 101
9. Appendix I 111
10. Appendix II 117
11. References 127
12. Index 135