The Sexual Life of Savages
by Bronisław Malinowski, Gerd Stange (Author)
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This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands.Tags
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Бронислав Малиновски в началото на 20 в. прекарва доста време сред няколко племена туземци и описва техния живот, като набляга на отношенията между мъжете и жените. Интересно четиво, в което ще намерите шокиращи паралели със съвременния живот и ще разберете, че може да имаме коли и телефони, но сме си хора такива, каквито явно сме били преди сто, и преди сто хиляди години.
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Bronislaw Malinowski, a Polish-born British anthropologist, was a major force in transforming nineteenth-century speculative anthropology into an observation-based science of humanity. His major interest was in the study of culture as a universal phenomenon and in the development of fieldwork techniques that would both describe one culture show more adequately and, at the same, time make systematic cross-cultural comparisons possible. He is considered to be the founder of the functional approach in the social sciences which involves studying not just what a cultural trait appears to be, but what it actually does for the functioning of society. Although he carried out extensive fieldwork in a number of cultures, he is most famous for his research among the Trobrianders, who live on a small island off the coast of New Guinea. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Wetsern Malanesia. An Ethographic Account of Courtship, Marirage and Family Life among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea
- Original publication date
- 1929
- Important places
- Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea
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- Genres
- Anthropology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 306.709953 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Culture and institutions Sexual relations Biography And History Pacific New Guinea
- LCC
- HQ504 .M36 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women The family. Marriage. Home
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- 6 — English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 22
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 10
