| #2447661 in eBooks | 2013-03-06 | 2013-03-06 | File type: PDF||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating book|By L. Robinson|I read this book in college and loved and bought it again so that I could use parts in a high school class I'm teaching...|15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| An essay on sexuality and ethnography with a literary bent|By A Customer|According to Torgovnick, the modern quest for ec|.com |In the 18th and 19th centuries, colonization of so-called "primitive cultures" by Western countries was the way of the world. Powerful nations sought to increase their wealth and power by subjugating the peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Now,
Beginning with early 20th-century figures--among them Carl Jung, Isak Dinesen, and Georgia O'Keeffe--who found in "the primitive" a medium for soul-searching and personal change, Torgovnivk probes how the return to the primitive has signaled a quest to transcend the limitations of the body in a variety of contemporary practices, from genital piercing to New Age rites to the mythopoetic men's movement. Illustrations. 272 pp. Author tour. 10,000 print.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy | Marianna Torgovnick. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
