Anxious Pleasures : The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People
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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 groupsAnthropologySexual 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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