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_b.A595 1987
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100 1 _aGregor, Thomas.
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245 1 0 _aAnxious pleasures :
_bthe sexual lives of an Amazonian people /
_cThomas Gregor.
250 _aPbk. edition.
260 _aChicago :
_bUniversity of Chicago Press,
_c(c)1987.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) :
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505 0 0 _aList 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.
520 0 _a""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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650 0 _aMehinacu Indians
_xSexual behavior.
650 0 _aIndians of South America
_xSexual behavior
_zBrazil.
650 0 _aSex role
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655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=638237&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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