Trobriand Islands
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| Waters | Solomon Lake | |
| Geographical location | 8 ° 29 ′ S , 151 ° 4 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 21st | |
| Main island | Kiriwina | |
| Total land area | 374.34 km² | |
| Residents | 28,486 (2000) | |
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Trobriand Islands , also known as Kiriwina Islands , is the name of a group of islands in the Solomon Sea , which belongs to Papua New Guinea . Administratively, together with the small Lusancay Islands in the west, it forms the Kiriwina Rural LLG (Local Level Government) area of the Kiriwina-Goodenough district of the Milne Bay Province .
geography
The archipelago has a north-south extension of 74 kilometers, from Kadai in the northwest to Vakuta in the southeast, and an east-west extension of 68 kilometers, from Kitava in the east to Yaona in the west. The Lusancay Islands join to the west . To the east are the Marshall Bennett Islands and to the south the D'Entrecasteaux Islands . In the north lies the open Solomon Sea, which is only limited 228 kilometers further north by the large island of New Britain .
The area of the Trobriand Islands is 374 km². At the time of the 2000 census, five islands with a total of 28,486 inhabitants were still inhabited.
List of islands
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
| Surname | Alternatively | Coordinates | Area km² |
Population 2000 census |
location |
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| Kitava | 8 ° 37 ′ 26 ″ S, 151 ° 20 ′ 10 ″ E | 23.79 | 2,907 | easternmost island | |
| Uratu | 8 ° 37 ′ 51 ″ S, 151 ° 18 ′ 20 ″ E | 0.09 | Side island of Kitava | ||
| Vakuta | 8 ° 51 ′ 7 ″ S, 151 ° 10 ′ 1 ″ E | 21.16 | 971 | south of the main island | |
| Bomapau | 8 ° 35 ′ 8 ″ S, 151 ° 5 ′ 50 ″ E | 4.68 | in the Kiriwina lagoon | ||
| Kiriwina | 8 ° 32 ′ 54 ″ S, 151 ° 4 ′ 52 ″ E | 279.88 | 22,163 | Main island | |
| Muwo | 8 ° 44 ′ 13 ″ S, 151 ° 0 ′ 39 ″ E | 2.82 | southwest of Kiriwina | ||
| Nanauli | 8 ° 47 '35 "S, 151 ° 1' 53" E | 0.06 | southwest of Kiriwina | ||
| Iaga | 8 ° 44 ′ 32 ″ S, 150 ° 57 ′ 40 ″ E | 0.10 | southwest of Kiriwina | ||
| Kaileuna | Kaile'una | 8 ° 31 ′ 31 ″ S, 150 ° 56 ′ 58 ″ E | 45.53 | 1,908 | west of the main island |
| Boinagi | 8 ° 24 ′ 58 ″ S, 150 ° 53 ′ 26 ″ E | 0.75 | northwest of Kaileuna | ||
| Buriwadi | 8 ° 27 ′ 47 ″ S, 150 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E | 0.64 | northwest of Kaileuna | ||
| Tuma | 8 ° 21 ′ 24 ″ S, 150 ° 51 ′ 51 ″ E | 5.16 | 0 | northwest of Kaileuna | |
| Kadai | 8 ° 19 ′ 10 ″ S, 150 ° 49 ′ 22 ″ E | 0.56 | 0 | northwest of Kaileuna | |
| Nubiam | 8 ° 38 ′ 18 ″ S, 150 ° 52 ′ 40 ″ E | 0.45 | southwest of Kaileuna | ||
| Kuyau | Kuiao | 8 ° 35 ′ 47 ″ S, 150 ° 51 ′ 41 ″ E | 1.90 | 537 | southwest of Kaileuna |
| Gilua | 8 ° 34 ′ 32 ″ S, 150 ° 50 ′ 40 ″ E | 0.05 | southwest of Kaileuna | ||
| Munuwata | Nuata | 8 ° 34 ′ 1 ″ S, 150 ° 50 ′ 8 ″ E | 0.64 | 0 | southwest of Kaileuna |
| Nakwaba | 8 ° 32 ′ 6 ″ S, 150 ° 49 ′ 16 ″ E | 0.37 | southwest of Kaileuna | ||
| Kibu | 8 ° 37 ′ 4 ″ S, 150 ° 47 ′ 13 ″ E | 0.22 | southwest of Kaileuna | ||
| Yaona | 8 ° 36 ′ 18 ″ S, 150 ° 44 ′ 30 ″ E | 0.05 | southwest of Kaileuna |
Note on the table:
The following islands used to be inhabited by a village each:
- Munuwata (Nuata) (still listed in the 2000 census, but with 0 inhabitants)
- Tuma (inhabited until 1963, former villages Gilela in the north and Ogegela in the south)
- Kadai
Alternative area data are available in the literature for the archipelago as a whole (440 km²), for Kiriwina (290.5 km²), for Kaileʻuna (50 km²) and for Kitava (15 km²).
tourism
The Trobriand Islands are South Sea islands that have so far been little developed for tourism.
population
The Trobrianders are related to the Polynesians . Their culture is matrilineal ; it is characterized by a low-conflict social life.
The Polish-British anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski was the first to investigate the Trobriander , who were largely traditional, close to nature, at the beginning of the 20th century on the basis of psychoanalytic findings. On the basis of this research he came to the conclusion that Freud's central assumption of the universality of the Oedipus complex was not correct for his teaching . The psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich used Malinowski's work on the Trobrianders as the basis for his book "The Break-in of Sexual Compulsive Morality" (1932), in which he postulated the connection between sexual oppression and social lack of freedom. HA Powell later refuted Malinowski's assumptions.
There is a kind of religion around the yams root among the Trobrianders . Many aspects of sexual permissiveness are related to the annual cycle of this plant. For the exchange system of the Kula ring discovered and analyzed by Malinowski with the surrounding island groups, see also Milne Bay Province .
Trobrianders are known for frequent adoptions of children. In a demographic and genealogical study in the village of Tauwema on the island of Kaileuna, data on, among other things, adoption patterns were collected over two decades. 27 percent of the children were adopted. Unlike in Western societies, children are given away to grow up with close relatives, in the matrilineal culture mainly in the maternal lineage.
history
The Europeans named the islands after the French Denis de Trobriand, who explored the islands in 1793 as a lieutenant under the command of Joseph Bruny d'Entrecasteaux .
literature
- Donald E. Brown: Human Universals . Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1991. pp. 32-38, ISBN 0-87722-841-8
- Bronisław Malinowski : Classificatory particles in the language of Kiriwina . In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, 1/4 (1920), pp. 33-78
- Bronisław Malinowski: Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An account of native enterprise and adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea . G. Routledge, London 1922
- Bronisław Malinowski: Argonauts of the Western Pacific: a report on the ventures and adventures of the natives in the island worlds of Melanesian New Guinea . Translation: Heinrich Ludwig Herdt, ed. from Fritz Kramer; Berlin 1979, ISBN 978-3-8108-0087-9 (2nd edition 1984)
- Gunter Senft : Kilivila. the language of the Trobriand Islanders . Berlin 1986
- Paul Theroux : Trobriand Islands The Saved Eden . In: GEO No. 11, November 1993, pp. 32-58.
- Heiner Wesemann: Papua New Guinea. Niugini. Stone Age Cultures on the Way to the 20th Century . DuMont-Verlag, Cologne 1985 ISBN 978-3-7701-1322-4
- Christian Maier: The glow of the papaya: a report from the Trobrianders in Melanesia . with a foreword by Paul Parin . European Publishing House, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 978-3-434-50401-6 .
Web links
- To truth and myth free sexuality (English)