Anxious pleasures : the sexual lives of an Amazonian people /

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""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 gi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gregor, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Edición:Pbk. edition.
Temas:
Mehinacu Indians > Sexual behavior.
Indians of South America > Sexual behavior > Brazil.
Sex role > Brazil.
Mehinaku > Sexualité.
Rôle selon le sexe > Brésil.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Indians of South America > Sexual behavior.
Sex role.
Brazil.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:""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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index.
ISBN:9780226150161
022615016X

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