A01=Thomas Gregor
affection
amazon region
amazonian people
anthropology
anxious pleasures
Author_Thomas Gregor
brazil
castration anxiety
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Category=JHM
Category=JMU
ceremonial activities
elaborate rituals
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femininity
indigenous population
marriage
masculine culture
mehinacu indians
myths
native peoples
oedipal conflict
personality theory
photographs
primitive cultures
psychosexual neuroses
secret societies
sex lives
sexuality
social sciences
socialization
sociology
south america
symbols of gender
Product details
- ISBN 9780226307435
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 1987
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"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 rituals—especially those practiced by the men in their secret societies—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.
