Anxious Pleasures : The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People

Name: Anxious Pleasures
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226307435
Price: 5500 KES
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ISBN: 9780226307435

by Thomas Gregor

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0226307433

ISBN-13 9780226307435

Publisher The University of Chicago Press

Imprint University of Chicago Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 15th, 1987

Print length 231 Pages

Weight 344 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.60 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Gender studies, gender groups Anthropology Sexual behaviour

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"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.

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