Irregular connections [electronic resource] : a history of anthropology and sexuality / Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons.
Material type: TextSeries: Critical studies in the history of anthropologyPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004Description: xiv, 419 pSubject(s): Sex customs -- History | Primitive societies | Anthropology -- History | Anthropologists -- AttitudesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.7/09 LOC classification: GN484.3 | .L96 2004Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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 Siecle -- "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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