Primitive Passions Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy |
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| Author:
| Torgovnick, Marianna |
| ISBN: | 978-1-299-27378-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $78.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.