Sex and Repression in Savage Society

by Bronislaw Malinowski

Overview

Part of the new Routledge Classics series

Malinowski was one of the founders of social anthropology and one of the first to become involved in ethnographic fieldwork

A core primary text for undergraduates in anthropology, philosophy and psychology

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134522026
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/02/2003
Series:	Routledge Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Formation of a Complex; Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM; Chapter 2 THE FAMILY IN FATHER-RIGHT AND MOTHER-RIGHT; Chapter 3 THE FIRST STAGE OF THE FAMILY DRAMA; Chapter 4 FATHERHOOD IN MOTHER-RIGHT; Chapter 5 INFANTILE SEXUALITY; Chapter 6 APPRENTICESHIP TO LIFE; Chapter 7 THE SEXUALITY OF LATER CHILDHOOD; Chapter 8 PUBERTY; Chapter 9 THE COMPLEX OF MOTHER-RIGHT; Part 2 The Mirror of Tradition; Chapter 10 COMPLEX AND MYTH IN MOTHER-RIGHT; Chapter 11 DISEASE AND PERVERSION; Chapter 12 DREAMS AND DEEDS; Chapter 13 OBSCENITY AND MYTH; Part 3 Psycho-analysis and Anthropology; Chapter 14 THE RIFT BETWEEN PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE; Chapter 15 A ‘REPRESSED COMPLEX’; Chapter 16 ‘THE PRIMORDIAL CAUSE OF CULTURE’; Chapter 17 THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PARRICIDE; Chapter 18 5 THE ORIGINAL PARRICIDE ANALYSED; Chapter 19 COMPLEX OR SENTIMENT?; Part 4 Instinct and Culture; Chapter 20 THE TRANSITION FROM NATURE TO CULTURE; Chapter 21 THE FAMILY AS THE CRADLE OF NASCENT CULTURE; Chapter 22 RUT AND MATING IN ANIMAL AND MAN; Chapter 23 MARITAL RELATIONS; Chapter 24 PARENTAL LOVE; Chapter 25 THE PERSISTENCE OF FAMILY TIES IN MAN; Chapter 26 THE PLASTICITY OF HUMAN INSTINCTS; Chapter 27 FROM INSTINCT TO SENTIMENT; Chapter 28 MOTHERHOOD AND THE TEMPTATIONS OF INCEST; Chapter 29 AUTHORITY AND REPRESSION; Chapter 30 FATHER-RIGHT AND MOTHER-RIGHT; Chapter 31 CULTURE AND THE ‘COMPLEX’; Index;

Editorial Reviews

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.

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

'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

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

'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

'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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