Irregular connections : a history of anthropology and sexuality
by
 
Lyons, Andrew P. (Andrew Paul)

Title
: 
Irregular connections : a history of anthropology and sexuality

Author
: 
Lyons, Andrew P. (Andrew Paul)

ISBN
: 
9780803229532
 
9780803280366

Personal Author
: 
Lyons, Andrew P. (Andrew Paul)

Publication Information
: 
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.

Physical Description
: 
xiv, 419 p. ; 23 cm.

Series
: 
Critical studies in the history of anthropology

Series Title
: 
Critical studies in the history of anthropology

Contents
: 
1. Three images of primitive sexuality and the definition of species -- 2. Sex and the refuge for destitute truth -- 3. Matriarchy, marriage by capture, and other fantasies -- 4. The reconstruction of "primitive sexuality" at the Fin de Siecle -- 5. "Old Africa hands" -- 6. Malinowski as "reluctant sexologist" -- 7. Margaret Mead, the future of language, and lost opportunities -- 8. The "silence" -- 9. Sex in contemporary anthropology.

Subject Term
: 
Sex customs -- History.
 
Primitive societies.
 
Anthropology -- History.
 
Anthropologists -- Attitudes.

Added Author
: 
Lyons, Harriet.

Electronic Access
: 
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0414/2004002395.html


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