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Primitive Passions

Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy
By:Marianna Torgovnick
Publisher:Random House Digital Inc.
Print ISBN:9780679430865
eText ISBN:9780307826114
Edition:0
Format:Reflowable

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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.

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