The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia
Overview
The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (pl.
Życie seksualne dzikich w północno-zachodniej Melanezji) is a 1929 book by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski. It contains ethnographic data that proves 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 gives a detailed description of the social organisation 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
".
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
Życie seksualne dzikich w północno-zachodniej Melanezji) is a 1929 book by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski. It contains ethnographic data that proves that the Freudian Oedipus complex
Oedipus complex
In psychoanalytic theory, the term Oedipus complex denotes the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrate upon a boy’s desire to sexually possess his mother, and kill his father...
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
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Argonauts of the Western Pacific is a 1922 ethnological work by Bronisław Malinowski. The book is about the Trobriand people who live on a small island chain called the Kiriwina Islands northeast of Papua New Guinea...
(1922), and Coral Gardens and Their Magic
Coral Gardens and their Magic
Coral Gardens and Their Magic, properly Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands, is the final book in anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski's ethnographic trilogy on the lives of the Trobriand Islanders...
(1935).
In the preface Malinowski says that sexuality "dominates in fact almost every aspect of culture".
Malinowski gives a detailed description of the social organisation 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
Independence
Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory....
".
Quotations
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