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100 1 _aDanielsson, Bengt,
_d1921-1997.,
_eauthor
240 1 0 _aSöderhavskärlek.
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245 1 0 _aLove in the South Seas /
_ctranslated by F.H. Lyon.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bReynal,
_c[1956]
300 _a240 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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500 _a"Translated from the Swedish Söderhavskärlek."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.
505 0 _aI Earthly paradise? -- II Stone age aristocrats -- III The prefect partner -- IV A time to love and a time to live -- V Marriage is a light garland -- VI The advantages of polygamy -- VII Problem children and child problems -- VIII The apostles of free love -- IX The hula girl as housewife -- X Collision of contrasts -- XI Something for us -- References -- Index.
520 _aEuropeans generally associate the South Sea Islands with girls in grass skirts, endless dancing and an unquenchable joie de vivre. The natives are known to have free and light-hearted habits that even excite our envy. In this popular-scientific account of the sexual life and family relations of the Polynesians, Bengt Danielsson (one of Thor Heyerdahl's comrades on the famous Kon-Tiki raft) reveals the extent to which this widespread conception of the South Seas as a lovers' paradise is justified. This comprehensive account - the first of its kind - is based on personal observation during years of travel and residence among various Polynesian peoples, as well as extensive literary research. Most of the descriptions quoted in the book are taken from older records of Polynesian habits and ideas in many languages that have not, for the most part, been available to English readers. Love in the South Seas is written in an easy and entertaining style. It deals with a variety of matters such as aesthetic ideals and means of attractions, sexual education and the games played by Polynesian youth, the laws of marriage and marital fidelity, polygamy, and 'unnatural' tendencies, religion, and the sexuality and social position of women. The author's numerous parallels with conditions in Europe serve to enlighten in a new and rather unexpected way our own sexual problems--Inside cover.
650 0 _aMarriage customs and rites
_zPolynesia.
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