Sex and Repression in Savage Society (Routledge Classics) (Paperback)

~ Bron Malinowski (Author) "Psycho-analysis was born from medical practice, and its theories are mainly psychological, but it stands in close relation to two other branches of learning-biology and..." (more)
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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

'From the anthropological point of view at least, it is a pioneering piece of work I believe that [my arguments] raise important issues which will sooner or later have to be considered by the biologist and animal psychologist, as well as by the student of culture.' - Bronislaw Malinowski

'Malinowski altered the whole mode and purpose of ethnographic enquiry.' - Edmund Leach

'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

'The present essay attempts to put Freud's theories to the test by examining them in the light of the mental habits of the harmless Trobrianders ... Some four years' contact with Melanesians, backed by the power to converse with them freely, gives Malinowski the best right to be heard as a reporter of facts which, it must be admitted, would escape nine trained observers out of every ten.' - The Times Literary Supplement

'This work is a most important contribution to anthropology and psychology, and it will be long before our textbooks are brought up to the standard which is henceforth indispensable.' - Saturday Review

Product Description

In Sex and Repression in Savage Society Malinowski applies his experiences on the Trobriand Islands to the study of sexuality, and the attendant issues of eroticism, obscenity, incest, oppression, power and parenthood.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 2nd edition (June 29, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415255546
• ISBN-13: 978-0415255547
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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