Irregular connections : a history of anthropology and sexuality /

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Autore principale: Lyons, Andrew P. (Andrew Paul)
Altri autori: Lyons, Harriet
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004.
Serie:Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Accesso online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=118217
Sommario:
  • Introduction
  • Three images of primitive sexuality and the definition of species
  • Sex and the refuge for destitute truth
  • Matriarchy, marriage by capture, and other fantasies
  • The reconstruction of "primitive sexuality" at the Fin de Siècle
  • "Old Africa hands"
  • Malinowski as "reluctant sexologist"
  • Margaret Mead, the future of language, and lost opportunities
  • The "silence"
  • Sex in contemporary anthropology
  • Conclusions and unfinished business.