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 GuineaThis volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands. |
Contents
PREFACE BY HAVELOCK ELLIS | xix |
FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION | xlv |
CHAP | 1 |
MARRIAGE GIFTS | 76 |
MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCES IN A CHIEFS FAMILY | 84 |
CHAP PAGE | 85 |
MARRIAGE | 93 |
FUNERAL CEREMONIES AND THE OBLIGATIONS | 130 |
JEALOUSY | 271 |
BEAUTY COLOUR AND SCENT IN LOVEMAKING | 273 |
THE CONVERSATION OF TWO LOVERS | 276 |
EROTIC APPROACHES | 278 |
THE ACT OF | 282 |
THE MAGIC OF LOVE AND BEAUTY | 290 |
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEAUTY CEREMONIAL OCCASIONS OF BEAUTY MAGIC | 291 |
THE RITUAL OF WASHING | 295 |
PROCREATION AND PREGNANCY IN NATIVE BELIEF AND CUSTOM | 140 |
REINCARNATION AND THE WAY TO LIFE THROUGH THE SPIRIT WORLD | 145 |
IGNORANCE OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PATERNITY | 153 |
WORDS AND DEEDS IN TESTIMONY 140 | 158 |
FATHERLESS CHILDREN IN A MATRILINEAL SOCIETY | 166 |
THE SINGular Claims of SOCIOLOGICAL PATERNITY | 172 |
PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH 1 PREPARATION FOR THE FIRST PREGNANCY RITE CEREMONIAL OF FIRST PREGNANCY 2 | 179 |
CUSTOMS OF PREGNANCY AND CONFINEMENT | 192 |
MOTHER AND CHILD | 196 |
CUSTOMARY FORMS OF LICENCE | 200 |
THE EROTIC ELEMENT IN GAMES | 201 |
GAMES INVOLVING PHYSICAL CONTACT | 207 |
SEASONS OF LOVE AND FESTIVITY | 210 |
CEREMONIAL GATHERINGSKayasa | 213 |
ORGIASTIC FESTIVALS | 217 |
ULATILE YOUTH IN SEARCH | 221 |
YAUSAORGIASTIC ASSAULTS BY WOMEN | 231 |
ACTUALITY OF ORGIASTIC LICENCE X LOVEMAKING AND | 233 |
CHAP | 235 |
OF EROTIC LIFE | 237 |
EROTIC ATTRACTION 2 REPULSION BY UGLINESS AGE and Disease 3 4 THE CARE OF THE BODY | 255 |
THE COURSE OF AN INTRIGUE | 260 |
CASES OF PERSONAL ATTACHMENT | 264 |
THE COMMERCIAL ASPECT OF LOVE | 268 |
THE Ritual of ADORNMENT | 298 |
EROTIC DREAMS AND FANTASIES | 324 |
DREAMS | 326 |
SEX IN FOLKLORESTRING FIGURES 3 SEX IN FOLKLOREFACETIĆ | 334 |
SEX IN FOLKLORELEGEND AND MYTH | 347 |
THE EROTIC PARADISE OF THE TROBRIANDER | 360 |
MORALS AND MANNERS 1 DECENCY AND DECORUM 2 THE MORALS OF SEX PAGE | 369 |
433 | 395 |
MODESTY IN SPEECH AND BEHAVIOUR | 402 |
EXOGAMY AND THE PROHIBITION OF INCEST | 416 |
THE SUPREME TABOO | 433 |
A SAVAGE MYTH OF INCEST | 452 |
THE SOURCES OF LOVE MAGIC | 454 |
THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF THE MYTH | 464 |
CASES OF ACTUAL INCEST | 474 |
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Common terms and phrases
adultery already Argonauts baku beach beauty magic behaviour body boge Bokaraywata bukumatula butia called canoe ceremonial charm chief child clan clitoris coco-nut copulate cross-cousin culture custom dance daughter dreams erotic ethnographer exogamy expression fact father female festive fibre field-work fish formula gaga gala garden gift girl hair husband important incest informants interest island kayasa kinship kinsmen Kiriwina Kitava kula kulula Kumilabwaga Kwabulo kwim love magic lovers luguta Malasi male marriage married maternal matrilineal Melanesian Mitakata momona moral mother myth Namwana Guya'u natives nature never observed Omarakana pandanus penis PLATE polygamy pregnancy pubic leaf rank regarded relation rites ritual rule sexual intercourse skin skirt sleep social sorcery speak spell spirit story sub-clan suvasova Tabalu taboo To'uluwa Tomwaya tribal Trobriand Islands Trobriands Tuma ulatile village vivila vulva wife wila wives woman women word yams