The Making of Man – An Outline of Anthropology
Dedicated to Robert Briffault, warm friend and one of the most amazing minds of our generation.
by V.F.Calverton.
Formal Sex Relations in Samoa by Margaret Mead, P587:
“More frequently still an older man, a widower or a divorced man will be the girl’s first lover…But the first amorous excursions of the older men among the young girls of the village are variants on the edge of the recognised types of relationships; so also is the first experience of a boy with an elder woman. But both of these are exceedingly frequent occurrences, so that the success of an amatory experience is seldom jeopardized by double ignorance.”
P212
Where polygyny obtains, the women are the most persistent advocates of the practice, and additional wives are in most instances acquired at the desire of a man’s wife or wives, and are commonly selected by them.
P215
Unmodified group-marriage is, thus, a practicable arrangement so long only as sexual relations remain completely independent of economic relations between the associates; and directly such economic factors enter into that relation the organisation must of necessity break up into one or other of it’s constituent aspects, into sororal polygyny or fraternal polyandry.
Homosexual Love by Edward Westermark
P548
In Rome there was an old law of unknown date, called Lex Scantinia (or Scatinia), which imposed a mulct on him who committed pederasty with a free person; but this law, of which very little is known, had lain dormant for ages, and the subject of ordinary homosexual intercourse had never afterwards attracted the attention of the pagan legislators.
Formal Sex Relations in Samoa by Margaret Mead
P587
More frequently still an older man, a widower or a divorced man will be the girl’s first lover…But the first amorous excursions of the older men among the young girls of the village are variants on the edge of the recognised types of relationships; so also is the first experience of a boy with an elder woman. But both of these are exceedingly frequent occurrences, so that the success of an amatory experience is seldom jeopardized by double ignorance.
Magic and Religion by Sir James Frazer
P693
Woman and religion by Robert H Lowie
P754
Where the relevant [menstrual] taboos exist in mild form or are lacking, sex discrimination seems to be likewise moderate.
P755
…religion is at bottom nothing but misunderstood erotic emotion. It must be obvious that two phenomena that exert so profound influence on so many phases of human conduct must have certain points of contact. The simplest kind of interrelationship occurs where the gratification of erotic desire is merely one of the life-values, which accordingly like other life-values can be secured by an appropriate intercourse with the extraordinary.
…dependence of religious feeling on the sex instinct…
…adolescence is preeminently the period of religious conversion, hence religious experience is functionally related with the instinct that comes to maturity at this period. Secondly, religion employs the language characteristic of the expression of erotic passion. Finally, the theory assumes a special concern of religion with the suppression of normal sexual activity, and a compensatory reaction against such asceticism.
P757
As for the repression and compensatory overindulgence of the sex appetite, neither can be said to be characteristic of primitive religion.
[NB: Lowie argues against this theory]
Evolution of Human Species by Robert Briffault
Scientia, June 1927
P768
In the human species itself, the lower races are precocious as compared with the higher, their development is completed and arrested earlier. The superiority of the white races is associated with their slow individual development, their prolonged infantilism.
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