The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia

Description

Author: Malinowski, Bronislaw  (1884-1942)

Publisher: Beacon Press

Pub Date: 1996 (Fifth printing)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 2″ crease.  Edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Facsimile reprint of the 1929 original printing.  Courtship, marriage, family life, kinship among the Trobriand Islanders of British New Guinea.  Malinowski was disappointed in the reception to this volume–“…details picked out and laughed at…” (page lviii)   “my main aim in this book, however, was to show that from whichever side you approach it, the problem of sex, family, and kinship presents an organic unity which cannot be disrupted….What has aroused general interest has been sensational details–the notorious ignorance of primitive paternity, the technicalities of love-making, certain aspects of love-magic (a subject unquestionably attractive), and one or two eccentricities of the so-called matriarchal system” (pages lviii-lix).