Sex and Repression in Savage Society

During the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowskifound himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands off the eastern coast of NewGuinea. By... » 

During the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowskifound himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands off the eastern coast of NewGuinea. By living among the people he studied there speaking their languageand participating in their activities he invented what became known asparticipantobservation. This new type of ethnographic study was to have ahuge impact on the emerging discipline of anthropology. In Sex and Repressionin Savage Society Malinowski applied his experiences on the Trobriand Islandsto the study of sexuality and the attendant issues of eroticism obscenityincest oppression power and parenthood. In so doing he both utilized andchallenged the psychoanalytical methods being popularized at the time in Europeby Freud and others. The result is a unique and brilliant book that thoughrevolutionary when first published has since become a standard work on thepsychology of sex. «