Malinowski Wanted to Check Freud's Idea of the Oedipal Complex

question 26

Multiple Choice

Malinowski wanted to check Freud's idea of the Oedipal complex in the Trobriand Islands because:

• A) Trobriand Islanders are matrilineal
• B) Trobriand fathers don't have authority over their sons
• C) he thought Freud was ethnocentric
• D) in the Trobriands, the men of the boy's lineage have authority over them
• E) all of the above

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