‘Coming of Age in Samoa and Nebraska’, Nepantla: Views from South, 2, pp. 139–72

Totem and Taboo (1989 [19 13]), Freud extrapolated from the evolutionist ethnographic data on kinship a theory o f the origins o f civilization in which

the struggle o f the rebellious sons against the primal father for sexual ac­

cess to the females o f the horde reduced women to passive sexual tokens.