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Baloma
Baloma is the spirit of the dead in Trobriand society, as studied by Bronislaw Malinowski, 1922. Plays a key role in conception ideologies and explains and maintains the matrilineal descent system by substituting the role of male sperm ("fathers") with that of a spirit.
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