Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1927.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. The Formation of a Complex -- 1. The Problem -- 2. The Family in Father-right and Mother-right -- 3. The First State of the Family Drama -- 4. Fatherhood in Mother-right -- 5. Infantile Sexuality -- 6. Apprenticeship to Life -- 7. The Sexuality of Later Childhood -- 8. Puberty -- 9. The Complex of Mother-right -- pt. II. The Mirror of Tradition -- 1. Complex and Myth in Mother-right -- 2. Disease and Perversion -- 3. Dreams and Deeds -- 4. Obscenity and Myth -- pt. III. Psycho-analysis and Anthropology -- 1. The Rift Between Psycho-analysis and Social Science -- 2. A 'Repressed Complex' -- 3. 'The Primordial Cause of Culture' -- 4. The Consequences of the Parricide -- 5. The Original Parricide Analysed -- 6. Complex or Sentiment? -- pt. IV. Instinct and Culture -- 1. The Transition from Nature to Culture -- 2. The Family as the Cradle of Nascent Culture -- 3. Rut and Mating in Animal and Man -- 4. Marital Relations -- 5. Parental Love -- 6. The Persistence of Family Ties in Man -- 7. The Plasticity of Human Instincts -- 8. From Instinct to Sentiment -- 9. Motherhood and the Temptations of Incest -- 10. Authority and Repression -- 11. Father-right and Mother-right -- 12. Culture and the 'Complex'.
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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. -- Back cover.
Families-- Papua New Guinea-- Trobriand Islands.
Families.
Psychoanalysis and culture-- Papua New Guinea-- Trobriand Islands.
Sex customs-- Papua New Guinea-- Trobriand Islands.