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Excerpt from 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 GuineaIn the nineteenth century the more sombre View pre vailed. The explorers were now mainly English, and they carried with them the anglo-saxon Puritanism for which all sexual customs that are unfamiliar are either Shocking or disgusting. Obscene was the wo...

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The main question of our age is how we live our lives

Excerpt from Crime and Custom in Savage SocietyThe Circumstances under which this thesis came into being have also contributed towards its present form. The material was first prepared and the conclusions framed in response to an invitation from the Royal Institution Of Great Britain, before which a paper was read (on the Forces of Law and Order in a Primitive Community on Friday evening, 13th February, 1925. As often happens, I found myself w...

Excerpt from The Dynamics of Culture Change an Inquiry Into Race Relations in AfricaMalinowski rarely used the word acculturation, and in one of his more recent writings he advocated the adoption of a term coined by Don Fernando Ortiz, namely, transculturation, since in this there were no implications Of one standard dominating all the phases (of culture change), but a transition in which both sides are active, each contributing its quota, eac...

Excerpt from The Family Among the Australian Aborigines: A Sociological StudyAnother important aspect of the problem has received its full treatment by Mr. Crawley in his study of primi tive marriage (the Mystic Rose, compare the note in the Addenda at the end of this volume). Working out thoroughly some conceptions suggested already by Prof. Frazer in his Golden Bough, the author has shown the social importance of the ideas about human relati...

Excerpt from Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New GuineaSir James Frazer, by writing his Preface, has enhanced the value of this volume beyond its merit and it is not only a great honour and advantage for me to be introduced by him, but also a special pleasure, for my first love for ethnology is associated with the reading of the Golden Bough, then in its second ...

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Excerpt from Sex and Repression in Savage Society Psycho-analysis has plunged us into the midst of a dynamic theory of the mind, it has given to the study of mental processes a concrete turn, it has led us to concentrate on child psychology and the history of the individual. Last but not least, it has forced upon us the consideration of the unofficial and unacknowledged Sides of human life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hund...

Nel 1913 un giovane antropologo polacco, Bronislaw Malinowski, pubblicò un libro su La famiglia fra gli aborigeni australiani che fece epoca perché spazzò via tutte le vedute dominanti sulla famiglia «selvaggia» o extraoccidentale dove si riteneva imperassero la promiscuità sessuale o il matrimonio di gruppo. Il fatto poi che la paternità consanguinea non fosse neppure conosciuta e non avesse gran che valore urtò a tal punto la suscettibilità ...

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About the Book Books about Ethnic Studies consider issues relating to the history of race and ethnicity within broader "mainstream" populations. Titles include: Anglo-Israel, Or, The British Nation the Lost Tribes of Israel, Irish Emigration to the United States: What It Has Been, and What It Is, Les Français au Canada. La jeunesse de Bougainville et la guerre de sept ans, Scotch-Irish in New England, The Czecho-Slovaks in America, The Greeks ...

Excerpt from 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 GuineaIn the nineteenth century the more sombre View pre vailed. The explorers were now mainly English, and they carried with them the anglo-saxon Puritanism for which all sexual customs that are unfamiliar are either Shocking or disgusting. Obscene was the wo...

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The first part of a two-volume classic devoted to the agriculture and agricultural rites of the Trobriand islanders. This work looks at the significance of agriculture in the Trobriand Islands.