Irregular connections : a history of anthropology and sexuality /
Lyons, Andrew P.
Irregular connections : a history of anthropology and sexuality / Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004. - xiv, 419 p. ; 23 cm. - Critical studies in the history of anthropology .
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.
978-0-8032-8036-6
2004002395
Sex customs--History.
Primitive societies.
Anthropology--History.
Anthropologists--Attitudes.
GN484.3 / .L96 2004
306.7/09
Irregular connections : a history of anthropology and sexuality / Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004. - xiv, 419 p. ; 23 cm. - Critical studies in the history of anthropology .
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.
978-0-8032-8036-6
2004002395
Sex customs--History.
Primitive societies.
Anthropology--History.
Anthropologists--Attitudes.
GN484.3 / .L96 2004
306.7/09