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Revival: Dress, Drinks and Drums (1931): Further Studies of Savages and Sex (Routledge Revivals)

Revival: Dress, Drinks and Drums (1931): Further Studies of Savages and Sex (Routledge Revivals)

by Theodore Besterman (Editor), Ernest Crawley (Author)

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    Paperback 2019

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Synopsis

'Studies of Savages and Sex' are brought together by nine shorter essays. In the present Volume are assembled three longer studies, the first of which, indeed, is long and important enough to have made a volume itself. It speaks of the origins, forms and psychology of dress (with special emphasis on the sexual psychology). The psychology of drinks and drums and all three combined.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 300
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04 Feb 2019
ISBN 10: 1138566004
ISBN 13: 9781138566002

Author Bio
Ernest Crawley was the son of Rev. Samuel Crawley, rector of Oddington Oxfordshire, and the brother of the Olympic lawn tennis player Walter Crawley. He was educated at Sedbergh School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Crawley was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Sociological Society. He contributed to the 'Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics'. He died 21 October 1924 in Kensington. Theodore Deodatus Nathaniel Besterman was born in 1904 in Poland but he moved to London in his youth. In 1925 he was elected chairman of the British Federation of Youth Movements. In the 1930s Besterman lectured at the London School of Librarianship, and edited and published many works of, and about, bibliography. In the 1950s Besterman began to concentrate on collecting, translating and publishing the writings of 'Voltaire', including much previously unpublished correspondence. This was to occupy him for the rest of his life.During the final years of his life, Besterman opened discussions with the University of Oxford.