ISBN:
9780226150161
,
022615016X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 223 pages)
,
illustrations.
Edition:
Pbk. edition
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Anxious pleasures
DDC:
306.7089
Keywords:
Michinacu Indians Sexual behavior
;
Indians of South America Sexual behavior
;
Brazil
;
Sex role Brazil
;
Michinacu Indians Sexual behavior
;
Indians of South America Sexual behavior
;
Sex role
;
Michinacu Indians Sexual behavior
;
Sex role
;
Indians of South America Sexual behavior
;
Indios de Brasil Conducta sexual
;
Papel del sexo Brasil
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Indians of South America ; Sexual behavior
;
Sex role
;
Brazil
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
""Good fish get dull but sex is always fun."" So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate rituals-especially those practiced by the men in their secret societies-the Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud: castration anxiety, Oedipal conflict, fantasies of loss of strength through sex, and a host of others. ""If we look carefully, "" writes Gregor, ""we will see reflections of our own sexual nature in the life ways of an Amazoni
Abstract:
List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Mehinaku and the Sexual Data; 2 Mehinaku Men and Women: A Sociology of Marriage, Sex, and Affection; 3 Facts of Life and Symbols of Gender; 4 Sexual Relations; 5 Food for Thought: The Symbolism of Sexual Relations and Eating; 6 Men's House; 7 Anxious Pleasures; 8 Anxious Dreams; 9 Tapir Woman: Socialization and Personality Theory; 10 Ears, Eclipses, and Menstruating Men:The Feminine Self in Masculine Culture; 11 The Universal Male; References; Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-216) and index. - Description based on print version record
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