As part of Papua New Guinea the Trobriant Islands are located in a bordering sea of the
Pacific Ocean. At the beginning of the 20th century the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski was
one of the first to explore the archipelago in the South Sea and ist inhabitants. In the
context of his work he discovered that Freund s psychoanalytic universality thesis regarding
the Oedipus complex is not true for the islanders. In this first volume out of three
Malinowsky deals with the tribal economics and social organizations as well as the trobriandan
gardening techniques and the magic within this kind of work.
