An ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea. The sexual lie of savages has long awaited its natural historian. Owing to sex taboos, that weigh at least as much on the civilized as on the savage mind, this subject has always bee veiled in mystery. The mystery has been fascinating or somber according to the general attitude to savagery that happened to prevail.
