Irregular connections [electronic resource] : a history of anthropology and sexuality / Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical studies in the history of anthropologyPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.Description: xiv, 419 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.7/09 22
LOC classification:
  • GN484.3 .L96 2004eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- Three images of primitive sexuality and the definition of species -- Sex and the refuge for destitute truth -- Matriarchy, marriage by capture, and other fantasies -- The reconstruction of "primitive sexuality" at the Fin de Siècle -- "Old Africa hands" -- Malinowski as "reluctant sexologist" -- Margaret Mead, the future of language, and lost opportunities -- The "silence" -- Sex in contemporary anthropology -- Conclusions and unfinished business.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-384) and index.

Introduction -- Three images of primitive sexuality and the definition of species -- Sex and the refuge for destitute truth -- Matriarchy, marriage by capture, and other fantasies -- The reconstruction of "primitive sexuality" at the Fin de Siècle -- "Old Africa hands" -- Malinowski as "reluctant sexologist" -- Margaret Mead, the future of language, and lost opportunities -- The "silence" -- Sex in contemporary anthropology -- Conclusions and unfinished business.

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