The Sexual Life of Savages in North-western Melanesia: An Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage, and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New GuineaThis volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands. |
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Review: The Sexual Life of Savages
User Review - Alfonso Jimenez - GoodreadsAn early anthropological view of how relationships develop among the Trobriand people and why they exist. Recommended for those interested in looking at themselves through a fun mirror. Read full review
Review: The Sexual Life of Savages
User Review - GoodreadsAn early anthropological view of how relationships develop among the Trobriand people and why they exist. Recommended for those interested in looking at themselves through a fun mirror. Read full review
Contents
FOREWORD TO THE THIRD EDITION | xix |
FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION | xlv |
XIII | xlviii |
OHAR | 1 |
Monrue or | 2 |
Causum or SEXUAL Armannous | 3 |
Monmrv m SPucn AND BmlAvloun | 4 |
ExoeAm Arm nn Pnomarrrou or Incasr | 5 |
PRENUPTIAL INTERCOURSE | 44 |
AGE DIVISIONS | 51 |
THE AMOROUS LIFE OF ADOLESCENGE | 59 |
THE AvENUEs T0 MARRIAGE | 66 |
THE CONSENT OF THE WIFEE FAMILY | 76 |
MARRIAGE | 93 |
DIvORcE AND THE DISSOLUTION | 121 |
z DEATH AND THE BEREAVED | 126 |
Tan Susanna TAaoo A SAVAGE MYTH 0F INCESI | 6 |
THE STATUS OE WOMAN IN NATIVE | 24 |
THE PRIVILEGES AND BURDENS OE RANK | 35 |
THE MAGIC OF LOVE AND BEAUTY | 38 |
THE IDEOLOGY 0F MOURNING | 137 |
s 907 saww | 290 |
371 | 381 |
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Common terms and phrases
Argonauts Bagido’u beauty magic betrothed body boy’s boys brother bukumatula called central place ceremonial charm chief chief’s child concubinage copulate cross-cousin culture custom dancing defined definite economic erotic expedition fact father father’s female festive fibre field field-work find fine fire first fish fishing flowers formula function garden gift girl girl’s family group marriage hair harvest household husband idea important influence informants intercourse interest island Kalogusa kayasa kinship Kiriwina kula liaison lovers male man’s marriage married maternal kinsmen matrilineal Melanesian Mitakata momona mother mother’s mourning myth Namwana Guya’u natives never observed Omarakana ornaments pandanus polygamy pregnancy rank relation rites ritual scientific seen sexual sexual intercourse Sinaketa sister skin social sorcery specific sub-clan Tabalu taboo To’uluwa tribal law Trobriand Islands Trobriands ulatile village Western Pacific widow wife wives woman women word yams