The Sexual Life of Savages

by Bronisław Malinowski

Book Overview

2012 Reprint of 1929 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Profusely illustrated. All original illustrations have been retained and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B008QNV7DW
• Release Date: January 1929
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The original case-study

This is considered the first field case-study ever done in the field of Anthropology. With that being said, I do not know if you can criticize the first of it's kind. I personally found it too old to be enjoyable and would only read it again if I had to for a class. Only get this if you are REALLY interested in the origins of anthropology-Otherwise skip it.

Great pictures and text

"The Sexual Life of Savages in ...Melanesia" is a book along the lines of Margaret Mead's 'Coming of Age in Samoa'. But Malinowski concentrates on the sex life alone. Of course, in the modern world, the sexual life of Western society may rival those of Melanesians, but the freedom of young unmarried people to enjoy sex without social disapproval was not common when Malinowski wrote the book. One of the strangest things in the book was that the Melanesians did not connect sex with pregnancy, according to the author. I wonder if they were just taking him for a ride. The pictures are great. B & W, but so real, with grass skirts and bare bosoms.