Gregor, Thomas. <br/><br/>
Anxious pleasures :  the sexual lives of an Amazonian people / 
Thomas Gregor. 
 - Pbk. edition. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  (c)1987. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Mehinaku and the Sexual Data; 2 Mehinaku Men and Women: A Sociology of Marriage, Sex, and Affection; 3 Facts of Life and Symbols of Gender; 4 Sexual Relations; 5 Food for Thought: The Symbolism of Sexual Relations and Eating; 6 Men's House; 7 Anxious Pleasures; 8 Anxious Dreams; 9 Tapir Woman: Socialization and Personality Theory; 10 Ears, Eclipses, and Menstruating Men:The Feminine Self in Masculine Culture; 11 The Universal Male; References; Index. 
<br/><br/> ""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 Amazoni. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226150161 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mehinacu Indians--Sexual behavior.<br/>Indians of South America--Sexual behavior--Brazil.<br/>Sex role--Brazil.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F2520  / .A595 1987