Sex and Repression in Savage Society

[thoronas]

For my classical ethnographic review I chose Bronislaw Malinowski's Sex and Repression in Savage Society. The book is Malinowski's critique of psycho-analysis, in particular Freud's Oedipus Complex, and is one of the first participant observation studies done in Anthropology. He deals with two problems: the differences in what constitutes the

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sex and savages!

[anonymous]

Good enough. But it would have made sense to supplement this with some insights into M the man (google, or whatever). That gives some clues about what he thought about both the "savages" and his own society. See, e.g. his field diaries when he talks about living with "niggers". One wonders about what the reliance on Freud says about M as well!

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[anonymous]

A-. I enjoyed reading this. The breezy writing style works well with blog. The interactivity and alternative representations drop off as you got busy with other stuff over the semester. And I don't see the journal review? I will check. You might have sent it e-mail.

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