During the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski found himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands, off the eastern coast of New Guinea. By living among the people he studied there, speaking their language and participating in their activities, he invented what became known as 'participant-observation'. This new type of ethnographic study was to have a huge impact on the emerging discipline of anthropology. In Sex and Repression in Savage Society Malinowski applied his experiences on the Trobriand Islands to the study of sexuality, and the attendant issues of eroticism, obscenity, incest, oppression, power and parenthood. In so doing, he both utilized and challenged the psychoanalytical methods being popularized at the time in Europe by Freud and others. The result is a unique and brilliant book that, though revolutionary when first published, has since become a standard work on the psychology of sex.
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'No writer of our times has done more than Bronislaw Malinowski to bring together in single comprehension the warm reality of human living and the cool abstractions of science.' - Robert Redfield
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Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a founder of modern social anthropology. He held the first chair in social anthropology at the London School of Economics from 1927. In 1938 he moved to the United States, where he taught at Yale and conducted field research in Mexico.
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- Totem and Taboo (Great Minds Series) by Sigmund Freud on 4 pages
- Primitive Society by Robert H Lowie on page 147, page 191, and page 208
- Psychology of Sex; A Manual for Students by Havelock Ellis on page 28, and page 154
- The History of Human Marriage by Edward Alexander Westermarck on page 169, and page 191
- Child Psychology by Ross Vasta on page 28
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- Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis by Celia Brickman on 5 pages
- New Directions in Psychological Anthropology (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology) by Theodore Schwartz on page 268, page 291, and page 347
- Structural Anthropology by Claude Levi-strauss on page 15, page 27, and Back Matter
- Wisdom's Passing: The Decline of American Public Education in the Post-World War II Era and What We Can Really Do About It by S. Porter on page 27, page 69, and Back Matter
- Inbreeding, Incest, And The Incest Taboo: The State of Knowledge at the Turn of the Century by Arthur P. Wolf in Front Matter, page 143, and page 156
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