Some anthropological studies relate only indirectly to sexual matters. In Frazer "The
Golden Bough" and Crawley
"The Mystic Rose", there is a vast amount of both sexual and non-sexual
information. The two most famous
anthropological studies that bear directly on sexual matters are Malinowski's "The
Sexual Life of Savages" and
"Patterns of Sexual Behaviour" by Ford and Beach. If any hardy reader is
ploughing through the superlatives
in this book he will already have met Ford and Beach several times. Their book, as one of the
few cross-cultural
studies to include reference to animal behaviour also, is perhaps the most quoted of
anthropological studies of
human sexual behaviour.