Marquesan Sexual Behavior [Behaviour]

"Review Copy" rubber stamp on front endpaper. Previous owner's signature. 5mm tears and chips to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xviii, 251, [3 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 17 illustration on 4 plate leaves. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 137mm. "This book is an anthropological and historical study of sexual practices in a remote, and therefore minimally westernized, Polynesian area." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Introduction; The Marquesas; Reproduction; Infancy and Childhood; Puberty and Adolescence; Marriage and Adulthood; Sex and Art; Religion; The Marquesas and Polynesia; The Probable Causes of Change; Appendix I. Venereal Disease; Appendix II. Medication for Arresting Premature Labor; Appendix III. Medication for Menstrual Problems; Appendix IV. Vaginal Medication for Infants; Appendix V. Factors Affecting the Marquesan Population; Bibliography; Index.

Product Info

Publisher: Constable and Company

Year: (1966)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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