Sex and Repression in Savage Society Quotes

“Magic plays an extremely important part in everything which these natives do.”
― Bronisław Malinowski, Sex and Repression in Savage Society

“Let us now turn to the second class of myths, those referring to certain big cultural achievements brought about by heroic deeds and important adventures.”
― Bronisław Malinowski, Sex and Repression in Savage Society

“In the Christian Aryan societies, however, pregnancy among the lower classes is made a burden, and regarded as a nuisance;”
― Bronisław Malinowski, Sex and Repression in Savage Society

“The mother, sometimes the father also, has to keep various taboos and observances, or perform rites which have to do with the welfare of the new life within the womb.”
― Bronisław Malinowski, Sex and Repression in Savage Society

“As an anthropologist I feel more especially that ambitious theories with regard to savages, hypotheses of the origin of human institutions and accounts of the history of culture, should be based on a sound knowledge of primitive life, as well as of the unconscious or conscious aspects of the human mind.”
― Bronisław Malinowski, Sex and Repression in Savage Society