Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Introduction -- 1. Three Images of Primitive Sexuality and the Definition of Species -- 2. Sex and the Refuge for Destitute Truth -- 3. Matriarchy, Marriage by Capture, and Other Fantasies -- 4. The Reconstruction of "Primitive Sexuality" at the Fin de Siècle -- 5. "Old Africa Hands" -- 6. Malinowski as "Reluctant Sexologist" -- 7. Margaret Mead, the Future of Language, and Lost Opportunities -- 8. The "Silence" -- 9. Sex in Contemporary Anthropology -- 10. Conclusions and Unfinished Business -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index.