num_pages: 244
description: During World War I, anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski found himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands, off the eastern coast of New Guinea. By living among the people he studied here, 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 this work, 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 this book, which, though revolutionary when first published, has since become a standard work on the psychology of sex.
language: English
title: Sex and Repression in Savage Society
titlecomplete: Sex and Repression in Savage Society (Routledge Classics)
genres: Philosophy, Science, Prehistory, Nonfiction, Psychology, History, Historical, Sociology, Sexuality, Anthropology
ratings_count: 211
publisher: Routledge