1st Edition

The Sexual Lives of Savages [1932/1952]

By Bronislav Malinowski Copyright 2002
    654 Pages
    by Routledge

    654 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands.

    1: The Relations Between the Sexes in Tribal Life; 2: The Status of Woman in Native Society; 3: Prenuptial Intercourse Between the Sexes; 4: The Avenues to Marriage; 5: Marriage; 6: Divorce and the Dissolution of Marriage by Death; 7: Procreation and Pregnancy in Native Belief and Custom; 8: Pregnancy and Childbirth; 9: Customary Forms of Licence; 10: Love Making and the Psychology of Erotic Life; 11: The Magic of Love and Beauty; 12: Erotic Dreams and Fantasies; 13: Morals and Manners; 14: A Savage Myth of Incest

    Biography

    Bronislav Malinowski