The Sexual Lives of Savages

This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands. 1: The Relations Between the Sexes in Tribal Life; 2: The Status of Woman in Native Society; 3: Prenuptial Intercourse Between the Sexes; 4: The Avenues to Marriage; 5: Marriage; 6: Divorce and the Dissolution of Marriage by Death; 7: Procreation and Pregnancy in Native Belief and Custom; 8: Pregnancy and Childbirth; 9: Customary Forms of Licence; 10: Love Making and the Psychology of Erotic Life; 11: The Magic of Love and Beauty; 12: Erotic Dreams and Fantasies; 13: Morals and Manners; 14: A Savage Myth of Incest