THE TROBRIAND ISLANDS EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI, 6 MARCH 1895 by Horst Letz, Kevin McCue, Ian Ripper

“…An earthquake and tsunami struck the Trobriand Islands in March 1895 causing at least 30 deaths but until now the location and magnitude of the earthquake were quite uncertain. …”
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A campaign of mass drug administration with artemisinin-piperaquine to antimalaria in Trobriand Islands by Guoming Li, Shaoqin Zheng, Zhenyan Zhang, Yanshan Hu, Nansong Lin, Nadia Julie, Lei Shu, Liwei Sun, Hongying Zhang, Yueming Yuan, Yuan Liang, Zhengjie Yu, Wei Xie, Ridley Mwaisiga, Jacob Morewaya, Qin Xu, Jianping Song, Changsheng Deng

“…Based on the natural topography of the Trobriand Islands, 44,855 residents from 92 villages on the islands were enrolled and divided into the main and outer islands. …”
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Yerli Topluluklarda İktidarın Bir Panoraması by Mustafa Solmaz

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Review of Gunter Senft, 2017. Imdeduya: Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea. Culture and Language Use.... by Maria Aleksandrovna Pilgun, Tamara Aleksandrovna Pivovarchik

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Making modern social science: The global imagination in East Central and Southeastern Europe after Versailles by Lebow, K, Mazurek, M, Wawrzyniak, J

“…Technically an ‘enemy alien’ (a Pole of Austro-Hungarian citizenship), he was barred from returning to Britain; stranded in Australia, under surveillance by authorities and with insecure finances, Malinowski began fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands that would result in his groundbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922).1Argonauts’ influence rested on its compelling portrait of the anthropologist as ‘participant-observer’, the insider/outsider uniquely poised to decode and recode cultures and meanings.2 Malinowski thus adeptly retooled his own ambiguous status into a paradigm of the ethnographer’s optimal subject-position – quipping that he himself was particularly suited to this role, as ‘the Slavonic nature is more plastic and more naturally savage than that of Western Europeans’.3…”

“You Speak Ukrainian Very Well”. Language Encounters during Ethnographic Fieldwork by Tomasz Kosiek

“… Some students of anthropology must be familiar with passages from Bronisław Malinowski’s work (1981), in which, based on his personal field experience gained in the Trobriand Islands, he formulated guidelines and postulates defining a new type of research method in social anthropology. …”
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C-reactive protein in traditional melanesians on Kitava by Pedro Carrera-Bastos, Maelán Fontes-Villalba, Michael Gurven, Frits A. J. Muskiet, Torbjörn Åkerfeldt, Ulf Lindblad, Lennart Råstam, Johan Frostegård, Yinon Shapira, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Yvonne Granfeldt, Kristina Sundquist, Tommy Jönsson

“…We have previously reported an apparent absence of aforementioned conditions amongst the traditional Melanesian horticulturalists of Kitava, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. Our objective in this study was to clarify associations between chronic low-grade systemic inflammation and chronic cardiometabolic conditions by measuring CRP in a Kitava population sample. …”
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An anthropology of the sea voyage - Prolegomena to an epistemology of transoceanic travel by Arnd Schneider

“…The paper reviews Bronislaw Malinowski’s own travel linked to some explorations of archetypical sea voyages among the Trobriand Islanders (Argonauts of the Western Pacific, 1922). …”
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On the human ethology of food sharing by Schiefenhövel Wulf

“…„Tolerated theft“, a behavioural trait in non-human primate species thought to be a stepping stone for the typical preparedness of humans to share, does not play a big role in traditional societies, which provide an important base to discuss the topic. The Trobriand Islanders, e.g., have a very complex system of sharing. …”
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