Oedipus in the Trobriands - Softcover

Spiro, Melford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226769895 ISBN 13: 9780226769899

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1982

Synopsis

Spiro challenges the argument of Bronislaw Malinowski that the matrilineal society of the Trobriand Islands produced a psychological constellation -- a matrilineal complex -- different from Freud's Oedipus complex and the generalization regarding the restrictive provenance of the Oepidus complex to which it gave rise. Spiro undertakes a reanalysis of Malinowski's data and shows that there is enough to suggest the presence of a strong Oedipus complex.

Melford E. Spiro is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the Anthropology Department in 1968. His other works include Gender and Culture, Oedipus in the Trobriands, and Culture and Human Nature.

About this title

About the Author:

Melford E. Spiro is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the anthropology department in 1968. Before that he taught at Harvard University where he founded the anthropology department. Among his works are Gender and Culture, Oedipus in the Trobriands, and Culture and Human Nature.

Melford E. Spiro is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the anthropology department in 1968. Before that he taught at Harvard University where he founded the anthropology department. Among his works are Gender and Culture, Oedipus in the Trobriands, and Culture and Human Nature.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0226769895
• ISBN 13: 9780226769899
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232