Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People

by Thomas Gregor

Book Overview

"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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226307433
• ISBN13: 9780226307435
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

For anyone interested in Sexual folklore- a must read!

I was forced to read this ethnography in college and it changed my worldview. Now, nearly six years after my read, it still has bookmarked a page in this slackened brain. It contains a thoughtful and sympathetic view of a culture rife with sexual tensions. It provides a valuable window on how sexual roles are developed and perpetuated. I'm very pleased this book is still accessible to the interested and advise anyone reading this to buy. If you need further convincing, or a decent argument in Freudian analysis, please e-mail me. In short, this is a book I offer to others but crave its return. It is a treasure in a host of dust-gathering anthropological ethnographies.