Anxious pleasures : the sexual lives of an Amazonian people / / Thomas Gregor
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| Autore: |
Gregor Thomas
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| Titolo: |
Anxious pleasures : the sexual lives of an Amazonian people / / Thomas Gregor
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1985 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.7/08998 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mehinacu Indians - Sexual behavior |
| Indians of South America - Sexual behavior - Brazil | |
| Sex role - Brazil | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Paperback edition 1987. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Bibliography: pages [211]-216. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sexuality, the Mehinaku, and Ourselves -- ONE. The Mehinaku and the Sexual Data -- TWO. Mehinaku Men and Women: A Sociology of Marriage, Sex, and Affection -- THREE. Facts of Life and Symbols of Gender -- FOUR. Sexual Relations -- FIVE. Food for Thought: The Symbolism of Sexual Relations and Eating -- SIX. Men's House -- SEVEN. Anxious Pleasures -- EIGHT. Anxious Dreams -- NINE. Tapir Woman: Socialization and Personality Theory -- TEN. Ears, Eclipses, and Menstruating Men: The Feminine Self in Masculine Culture -- ELEVEN. The Universal Male -- References -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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 Amazonian people." The book is illustrated with Mehinaku drawings of ritual texts and myths, as well as with photographs of the villagers taking part in both everyday and ceremonial activities. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Anxious pleasures |
| ISBN: | 0-226-30742-5 |
| 0-226-15016-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452919303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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