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3. Mana and the Virtue of Magic 76
4. Magic and Experience 79
5. Magic and Science 85
6. Magic and Religion 87
Myth in Primitive Psychology
DEDICATION TO SIR JAMES FRAZER 		93
I. THE ROLE OF MYTH IN LIFE 96
II. MYTHS OF ORIGIN 111
III. MYTHS OF DEATH AND OF THE RECURRENT
CYCLE OF LIFE 		126
IV. MYTHS OF MAGIC 138
V. CONCLUSION 143
Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead
in the Trobriand Islands
I. GENERAL REMARKS CONCERNING THE INDEPEND-
ENCE OF MORTUARY PRACTICES, AND THE WEL-
FARE OF THE SPIRIT; THE TWO FORMS OF SPIRIT
OR GHOST, THE baloma AND THE kosi; THE
mulukuausi, TERRIBLE BEINGS WHICH HAUNT
THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF A CORPSE 		149
II. THE JOURNEY OF THE SPIRIT (baloma) TO THE
NETHER WORLD; ITS ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION
IN Tuma, THE ISLAND OF THE SPIRITS 		154
III. COMMUNION BETWEEN THE baloma AND THE
LIVING; ACTUAL MEETINGS IN WAKING CON-
DITION; COMMUNION THROUGH DREAMS AND
VISIONS; NATURE OF THE baloma AND THE kosi 		160
IV. RETURN OF THE SPIRITS TO THEIR VILLAGES
DURING THE ANNUAL FEAST, THE milamala 		171
V. PART PLAYED BY THE SPIRITS IN MAGIC; REF-
ERENCES TO ANCESTORS IN MAGICAL SPELLS 		190
VI. BELIEFS IN REINCARNATION 215
VII. IGNORANCE OF THE PHYSIOLOGY OF REPRODUC-
TION 		220
VIII. SOME GENERAL STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE
SOCIOLOGY OF BELIEF 		237
NOTES 255

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Publication Information: Book Title: Magic, Science and Religion: And Other Essays. Contributors: Bronislaw Malinowski - author. Publisher: Doubleday Anchor Books. Place of Publication: Garden City, NY. Publication Year: 1954. Page Number: 8.
    
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