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- Title
THE TROBRIANDIZATION OF THE WESTERN WORLD: BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI AND THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION.
- Authors
LIEP, JOHN
- Abstract
This essay explores the wider cultural impact of Malinowski's reports on Trobriand sexual life and society in Britain and Denmark. Through his writings and lectures the Trobrianders became a 'byword among novelists and social reformers (...) the Twentieth-Century Noble Savage' (Meyer Fortes). Malinowski's voice was a part of the discourse of 'the New Generation' of sexual libertarians in Britain and America. This was the First 'Sexual Revolution' of the 1920s and 30s. In the second part of the essay I follow a link to Denmark where the Trobriand model case was introduced into a milieu of 'culture liberals' by the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich in the mid-thirties. In the Second Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s culture liberals and their ideas became dominant and victorious in Danish educational and sexual reforms. In an epilogue I follow this legacy of free love back to the Trobriand Islands with a Danish filmmaker, Jorgen Leth, in the 1980s.
- Subjects
TROBRIAND Islands (Papua New Guinea); MALINOWSKI, Bronislaw, 1884-1942; TROBRIAND Islanders; SEXUAL freedom; FREE love; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 2014, Vol 39, Issue 4, p5
- ISSN
0355-3930
- Publication type
Essay