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Oedipus in the Trobriands / Melford E. Spiro ; with a new preface by the author.

Title
Oedipus in the Trobriands / Melford E. Spiro ; with a new preface by the author.
Author
Spiro, Melford E.
Publication
New Brunswick (U.S.A.) : Transaction Publishers, c1993.

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Description
xvii, 200 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Malinowski, Bronislaw
  • Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942
  • Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942
  • Anthropology, Cultural
  • Ethnology > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands
  • Oedipus complex > Cross-cultural studies
  • Ethnopsychology
  • Families > Papua New Guinea > Trobriand Islands
  • Family
  • Oedipus Complex
  • Papua New Guinea
Genre/Form
Cross-cultural studies
Note
  • Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-193) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. The Problem Posed -- 2. The Trobriand Matrilineal Complex: A Critique -- 3. The Trobriand Oedipus Complex: A Hypothesis -- 4. Testing the Trobriand Oedipal Hypothesis: Predicted Ontogenetic Determinants -- 5. Testing the Trobriand Oedipal Hypothesis: Predicted Psychological Concomitants -- 6. Is the Oedipus Complex Universal?
ISBN
1560006277
LCCN
^^^92003209^
OCLC
  • 25318143
  • SCSB-10809836
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library