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The Sexual Lives of Savages

Name: The Sexual Lives of Savages
Author: Bronislav Malinowski

[1932/1952]

Bronislav Malinowski

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The Sexual Lives of Savages

[1932/1952]

Bronislav Malinowski

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This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands.

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Routledge

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2013

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9781135033859

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Letteratura

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Critica letteraria

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Abortion, 167

Adolescents, amorous life of, 53 ff. (And see Bachelors and Girls)

Adultery:

Cases of, 98–99, 123; among Chief’s wives, 117–119, 273, 411, 446

Cat’s-cradle representing, 337–338

Child-bearing without husband’s intercourse not attributed to, 164

General attitude to, 97–98, 386, 388; in case of pregnant woman, 291

Native word for, 58, 62; so-called, 90

Punishment for, 121; formerly death, 121, 271, 273, 386; semi-public shaming, 408

Taboo on, 384

Affection: physiological seat of, 144; usually lasting in Trobriand marriages, 96, 138

Age: disparity in infant betrothals, limit of, 89; Table showing designations for, 51

Albinos, 150; native name for, 252; their appearance, 255; horror of, 157; ostracism of, 68, 243, 246–247; case of incest with, 477

Ambition and personal pride as incentive, 55, 105, 108–109

Amorous expeditions, see Katuyausi and Ulatile

Amphlett Is., 165, 235, 350; garden magic in, 37 n.; sexual and social intercourse in, 220, 262–263

Anatomy, human, parts of, distinguished and named, 141

Ancestral spirits, see under Spirits

Animals, ignorance as to propagation of, 162–164 (and see Dogs and Pigs)

Anointing (putuma), 255; ritual, 298

Areca palm leaves for dress, 255

Argonauts of the Western Pacific cited, 2 n., 7 n., 20 n., 30 n., 36 n., 38 n., 77 n., 99 n. 101 n., 108 n., 113 n., 131 n., 178 n.¹, 182 n., 186 and n., 187 n., 189 n., 194 n., 210 n., 212 n., 214 n., 216 n. 242 n., 244 n., 245 n., 270 n. 291 and n., 296 n., 297 n., 329 n., 330 n., 351 n., 378 n.² 414 n., 455 n.¹, 476 n.¹

Armlets: making of, 22; of conus shell, 77; aromatic leaves worn in (vana), 187, 198, 210, 228, 257, 378

Arms (limbs), affection associated with, 141, 144

Aromatic herbs:...