Introduction: The Subject, Method and Scope of this Inquiry
Plate III Street of Kasana’i (Inkiriwina, Trobriand Islands) An everyday scene, showing groups of people at their ordinary occupations. (See Div. IV )
Plate IV Scene in Yourawotu (Trobriands) A complex, but well-defined, act of a sagali (ceremonial distribution) is going on. There is a definite system of sociological, economic and ceremonial principles at the bottom of the apparently confused proceedings. (See Div. IV )
Indeed, in my first piece of Ethnographic research on the South coast, it was not until I was alone in the district that I began to make some headway; and, at any rate, I found out where lay the secret of effective
