ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |65 pages
Part I The Formation of a Complex
chapter |5 pages
1 The Problem
chapter |8 pages
2 The Family In Father-Right And Mother-Right
chapter |6 pages
3 The First Stage Of The Family Drama
chapter |6 pages
4 Fatherhood In Mother-Right
chapter |6 pages
5 Infantile Sexuality
chapter |6 pages
6 Apprenticeship To Life
chapter |8 pages
7 The Sexuality Of Later Childhood
chapter |11 pages
8 Puberty
chapter |7 pages
9 The Complex Of Mother-Right
part |40 pages
Part II The Mirror of Tradition
chapter |2 pages
1 Complex And Myth In Mother-Right
chapter |5 pages
2 Disease And Perversion
chapter |9 pages
3 Dreams And Deeds
chapter |22 pages
4 Obscenity And Myth
part |34 pages
Part III Psycho-analysis and Anthropology
chapter |5 pages
1 The Rift Between Psycho-Analysis And Social Science
chapter |4 pages
2 A ‘Repressed Complex'
chapter |5 pages
3 ‘The Primordial Cause Of Culture'
chapter |4 pages
4 The Consequences Of The Parricide
chapter |10 pages
5 The Original Parricide Analysed
chapter |4 pages
6 Complex Or Sentiment?
part |78 pages
Part IV Instinct and Culture