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Search - Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk - A Study In Social Evolution

Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk A Study In Social Evolution
Author: Edward. Carpenter

Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk Study in Social Evolution BY EDWARD CARPENTER. Content INTRODUCTION Tart I The Intermediate in the Service of Religion Chapter I. As PROPHET OR PRIES-I - 15 II. As WIZARD OR WITCH 36 III. As INVENTORS OK THE ARTS AND CRAFTS - 55 IV. HERMAPHRODISM AMONG GODS AND MORTALS 66 Tart II The Intermediate as Warri... more »or V. THE DORIAN MILITARY COMRADESHIP - 87 VI. ITS REI ATION TO THE STAIUS OF WOMAN - 102 VII. Irs RELA i ION TO Civic LIFE AND RELIGION 117 VIII. THE SAMURAI OF JAPAN AND THEIR IDEAL 137 CONCLUSION - - - - - - 161 INDEX - - - - - - - - 175 Introduction THAT between the normal man and the normal woman there exist a great number of intermediate types types, for instance, in which the body may be perfectly feminine, while the mind and feelings are decidedly masculine, or vice versa is a thing which only a few years ago was very little under stood. But to-day thanks to the labours of a number of scientific men the existence of these types is gen erally recognised and admitted it is known that the variations in question, whether affecting the body or the mind, are practically always congenital and that similar variations have existed in consider able abundance in all ages and among all races of the world. Since the Christian era these inter mediate types have been much persecuted in some periods and places, while in others they have been mildly tolerated but that they might possibly fulfil a positive and useful function of any kind in society is an idea which seems hardly if ever to have been seriously considered. B 9 INTERMEDIATE TYPES Such an idea, however, must have been familiar in pre-Christian times and among the early civili sations, and if not consciously analysed or genera lised in philosophical form, it none th e less underran the working customs and life of many, if not most primitive tribes in such a way that the interme diate people and their corresponding sex-relation ships played a distinct part in the life of the tribe or nation, and were openly acknowledged and recognised as part of the general polity. It is probably too early at present to formulate any elaborate theory as to the various workings of this element in the growth of society. It might be easy to enter into a tirade against sex-inversion in general and to point out and insist on all the evils which may actually or possibly flow from it. But this would not be the method either of common sense or of science and if one is to understand any widespread human tendency it is obvious that the procedure has to be different from this. One has to enquire first what advantages if any may have flowed, or been reported to flow, from the tendency, wh t place it may possibly have occupied in social life, and what if any were its healthy, rather than its unhealthy, manifestations. Investi gating thus in this case, we are surprised to find how often according to the views of these early peoples themselves inversion in some form was 10 INTRODUCTION regarded as a necessary part of social life, and the Uranian man accorded a certain meed of honour. It would seem as a first generalisation on this unexplored subject that there have been two main directions in which the intermediate types have penetrated into the framework of normal society, and made themselves useful if not indispensable...

ISBN-13: 9781406716191
ISBN-10: 1406716197
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 188
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Publisher: Kimball Press
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