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Chapter VI Launching of a Canoe and Ceremonial Visiting—Tribal Economics in the Trobriands

directly. As is usual in such cases, months before the approximate date of sailing, plans and forecasts were made, stories of previous voyages were recounted, old men dwelt on their own reminiscences and reported what they had been told by their elders of the days

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