Download or read book Human Sexuality in Melanesian Cultures written by Joel Ingebritson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia written by Gilbert H. Herdt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture area. The book as a whole indicates that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision in light of the Melanesian findings. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984. This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture
Download or read book The Sexual Life of Savages in North Western Melanesia written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by London : Routledge and K. Paul. This book was released on 1929 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sexual Life of Savages in North Western Melanesia written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from 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 Guinea In the nineteenth century the more sombre View pre vailed. The explorers were now mainly English, and they carried with them the anglo-saxon Puritanism for which all sexual customs that are unfamiliar are either Shocking or disgusting. Obscene was the word com monly used, and it was left to the reader's imagination to picture what that might mean. The sexual behaviour of savages seemed mostly unspeakable. The urethral sub incision practised by some Australian tribes was mysteri ously named the terrible rite. A similar mutilation Of the nose or ear, or anywhere a little higher up or a little lower down, would not have seemed terrible; but at that particular spot it aroused a shuddering and Shame faced awe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Gender of the Gift written by Marilyn Strathern and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations in Melanesia have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness, and with equal good humour, the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life.
Download or read book Human Sexuality in Melanesian Cultures written by Joel F. Ingebritson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sexual Life of Savages in North Western Melanesia written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronislaw Malinowski was born in Krakow, Poland on April 7, 1884, died 1942. Through the acquisition of an outstanding education and many years of fieldwork, he became a very influential British anthropologist and the founder of Functionalism. He attended King John Sobieski public school then continued on to the University of Krakow where he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy, Physics and Mathematics. In 1913, he lectured at the London School of Economics where he earned his Ph.D. in Science in 1916. It was there that he read The Golden Bough by Sir James Frazer and sparked his interest in anthropology. Malinowski founded the field of Social Anthropology known as Functionalism, holding the belief that all components of society interlock to form a well-balanced system. He emphasized characteristics of beliefs, ceremonies, customs, institutions, religion, ritual and sexual taboos. His New York Times obituary named him an "integrator of ten thousand cultural characteristics." Malinowski?s first field study came in 1915-18 when he studied the Trobriand Islanders of New Guinea in the southwest Pacific. He used a holistic approach in studying the native?s social interactions including the annual Kula Ring Exchange, finding it to be associated with magic, religion, kinship and trade. He contributed to a cross-cultural study of psychology through his observations of the relationships of kinship. He discovered evidence to discredit Sigmund Freud?s theory of the Oedipus Complex in the lives of the Trobianders by proving that individual psychology depends on cultural context. He wrote a book about his fieldwork and experiences entitled Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922).
Download or read book The Sexual Life of Savages in North western Melanesia written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia written by Paul Sillitoe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia is intended for undergraduate anthropology students with some grounding in the issues and ideas that inform the discipline, and for courses in Pacific Studies. Each chapter focuses on a topic common to many cultures in the region, such as the role of so-called Big Men, ancestors, male initiation, and exchange, and these ideas are fleshed out with apt ethnographic examples. Melanesia is a fascinating culture area, and has always been a popular fieldwork site for anthropologists, including W. H. R. Rivers, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson. Some of the most important theoretical contributions to the subject were also first formulated with reference to Melanesian studies, and students today still learn much of their basic anthropology from Melanesian examples.
Download or read book Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia written by Thomas Gregor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazonia and Melanesia are half a world in distance, yet their cultures bear similarities in the areas of sex and gender. This work looks at ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized.
Download or read book The Sexual Life of Savages in North Western Melanesia written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sexual Life of Savages in North Western Melanesia written by Bronisław Malinowski and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sexual Life of Savages in North western Melanesia written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Drum written by James F. Weiner and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, sophisticated anthropological/psychoanalytic consideration of certain Papuan myths that deal with lost or detached objects, which, although destined to complete the missing parts of persons, instead elude their control, or incorporate the whole person rather than being reincorporated themselves. "Like sexual organs, they have their own embarrassing powers of extensibility, intrude themselves into people's desire, swallow other objects, organs, persons, and discourses" (Introduction). Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Sexual Life of Savages in North Western Melanesia an Ethnographic Account of Courtship Marriage and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobri written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by Martino Fine Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 Reprint of 1929 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Profusely illustrated. All original illustrations have been retained and re-screened for this reprint edition. "The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia" contains ethnographic data that attempts to establish that the Freudian Oedipus complex is not universal. This important work is his second in the trilogy on the Trobrianders, with the other two being "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" (1922), and "Coral Gardens and Their Magic" (1935). In the preface Malinowski says that sexuality "dominates in fact almost every aspect of culture." Malinowski provides a detailed description of the social organization of sexuality - social rites, partner choice, et al - "tracing the Trobriand lifecycle from birth through puberty, marriage, and death." Children don't submit to a system of "domestic coercion" or "regular discipline" - they "enjoy considerable freedom and independence." The idea of a child being "beaten or otherwise punished in cold blood" by a parent is viewed as unnatural and immoral and when proposed by westerners (like the anthropologist) is "rejected with resentment." Things are asked "as from one equal to another; a simple command, implying the expectation of natural obedience, is never heard from parent to child in the Trobriands." The event of a person getting angry and striking another person "in an outburst of rage" sometimes happens but as often from parent to child as from child to parent. In further chapters, the parent-child relationship of the Trobrianders is described with details of their complex matrilineal relationship structure in which the biological parentage is ignored.
Download or read book Population Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia written by Stanley Ulijaszek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense.
Download or read book Human Sexuality in Melanesian Churches written by Joel F. Ingebritson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
