Sex, culture, and myth / Bronislaw Malinowski.

  • Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942.
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1962
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Sex, culture, and myth / Bronislaw Malinowski. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962.

Physical description

346 pages ; c ; 22 cm

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[1st ed.].

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.

Contents

1. Sex, family, and community: Marriage -- The family: past and present -- Parenthood -the basis of social structure -- Aping the ape -- Pioneers in the study of sex and marriage -- Kinship -- 2. Culture and myth: Culture as a determinant of behavior -- Man's culture and man's behavior -- The group and the individual in functional analysis -- Myth as a dramatic development of dogma -- Science and religion -- On Sir James Frazer -- Elementary forms of religious life -- The life of myth -- The foundations of faith and morals.

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