Anxious Pleasures: Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Anxious Pleasures: Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People Book

"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 ritualsâ??especially those practiced by the men in their secret societiesâ??the Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud: castration anxiety, Oedipal conflict, fantasies of loss of strength through sex, and a host of others. "If we look carefully," writes Gregor, "we will see reflections of our own sexual nature in the life ways of an Amazonian people." The book is illustrated with Mehinaku drawings of ritual texts and myths, as well as with photographs of the villagers taking part in both everyday and ceremonial activities. Read More

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  • 0226307433
  • 9780226307435
  • Gregor
  • 1 January 1987
  • Chicago University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 231
  • New edition
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