The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia: An Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage, and Family Life among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea

Bronislaw Malinowski; Havelock Ellis

Verlag: George Routledge & Sons, London, 1932

An illustrated third edition of this ethnological study into life among the natives of North-Western Melanesia, with a preface by Havelock Ellis. Third edition with special foreword, first published 1929. Illustrated with frontispiece, ninety-one plates, and four figures. Collated complete. A comprehensive social study into the relations between sexes in tribal life, centred on those natives of the Trobriand Islands and British New Guinea of North-Western Melanesia. With reference to the status of women, prenuptial intercourse, marriage, divorce or the dissolution of marriage, pregnancy and childbirth, the erotic life, morals and customs, and much more. Written by Bronislaw Malinowski, a Polish-British anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings have seen a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropological study. With a special foreword by Havelock Ellis, an English physician, writer, intellectual, social reformer, and eugenicist, who studied human sexuality. In the original full red cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and marks to the boards. Some tide marks to the boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with tide marks and age toning to the first and last few pages. The odd spot. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 874T67

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western ...
Verlag: George Routledge & Sons, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1932
Einband: Cloth
Illustrator: Not Stated
Zustand: Good
Art des Buches: book