The Sexual Lives of Savages by Malinowski, Bronislaw -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Preface Foreword to the Third Edition Foreword to the First Edition I: The Relations Between the Sexes in Tribal Life

1. The Principles of Mother-Right 2. A Trobriand Village 3. Family Life 4. The Division of Property and Duties Accord to Sex

II: The Status of Woman in Native Society

1. The Privileges and Burdens of Rank 2. Mortuary Rites and Festivities 3. Woman’s Share in Magic

III: Prenuptial Intercourse

1. The Sexual Life of Children 2. Age Divisions 3. The Amorous Life of Adolescence 4. The Bachelors’ House

IV: The Avenues to Marriage

1. Motives for Marrying 2. The Consent of the Wife’s Family 3. Marriage Gifts 4. Infant Betrothal and Cross-Cousin Marriage 5. Matrimonial Alliances in a Chief’s Family 6. Ceremonies of Infant Betrothal

V: Marriage

1. Husband and Wife as Companions 2. Adultery and Sexual Jealousy 3. Economic Tribute from the Wife’s Family 4. The Polygamy of Chiefs 5. The Domestic Aspect of Polygamy

VI: Divorce and the Dissolution of Marriage by Death

1. Divorce 2. Death and the Bereaved 3. Funeral Ceremonies and the Obligations of Mourning 4. The Ideology of Mourning

VII: Procreation and Pregnancy in Native Belief and Custom

VIII: Pregnancy and Childbirth

1. Preparation for the First Pregnancy 2. Ceremonial of First Pregnancy 3. Customs of Pregnancy and Confinement 4. Mother and Child

IX: Customary Forms of Licence

1. The Erotic Element in Games 2. Games Involving Physical Contact 3. Seasons of Love and Festivity 4. Ceremonial Gatherings—Kayasa 5. Orgiastic Festivals 6. Ulatile—Youth in Search of Amorous Adventure 7. Katuyausi—A Ceremonial Escapade of Girls 8. Yausa—Orgiastic Assaults by Women 9. Actuality of Orgiastic Licence

X: Lovemaking and the Psychology of Erotic Life

1. Erotic Attraction 2. Repulsion by Ugliness, Age, and Disease 3. Beauty of the Human Face and Body 4. The Care of the Body 5. The Course of an Intrigue 6. Cases of Personal Attachment 7. The Commercial Aspect of Love 8. Jealousy 9. Beauty, Colour, and Scent in Lovemaking 10. The Conversation of Two Lovers 11. Erotic Approaches 12. The Act of Sex

XI: The Magic of Love and Beauty

1. The Importance of Beauty 2. Ceremonial Occasions of Beauty Magic 3. Beauty Magic: The Ritual of Washing 4. Beauty Magic: The Ritual of Adornment 5. The Magic of Safety and Renown at Festivities 6. The Magic of Love 7. The Rite and the Spell in Love Magic 8. The Realities of Love Magic 9. The Magic of Oblivion

XII: Erotic Dreams and Fantasies

1. Dreams 2. Sex in Folk-Lore—String Figures 3. Sex in Folk-Lore—Facetiæ 4. Sex in Folk-Lore—Legend and Myth 5. The Erotic Paradise of the Trobriander

XIII: Morals and Manners

1. Decency and Decorum 2. The Morals of Sex 3. The Censure of Sexual Aberrations 4. Modesty in Speech and Behaviour 5. Exogamy and the Prohibition of Incest 6. The Supreme Taboo

XIV: A Savage Myth of Incest

1. The Sources of Love Magic 2. The Original Text of the Myth 3. Cases of Actual Incest

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