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Title Ethno-pornography : sexuality, colonialism, and archival knowledge / edited by Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, and Neil L. Whitehead
Published Durham : Duke University Press, [2020]

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Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ethnopornography as Methodology and Critique: Merging the Ethno-, the Porno-, and the -Graphos: Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, and Neil L. Whitehead -- Part I. Visualizing Race -- 1. Exotic/Erotic/Ethnopornographic: Black Women, Desire, and Labor in the Photographic Archive: Mireille Miller-Young -- 2." Hung, Hot, and Shameless in Bed": Blackness, Desire, and Politics in a Brazilian Gay Porn Magazine, 1997-2008: Bryan Pitts -- 3. The Ghosts of Gaytanamo: Beatrix McBride
4. Under White Men's Eyes: Racialized Eroticism, Ethnographic Encounters, and the Maintenance of the Colonial Order: Sidra Lawrence -- Part II. Ethnopornography as Colonial History -- 5. Franciscan Voyeurism in Sixteenth-Century New Spain: Pete Sigal -- 6. European Travelogues and Ottoman Sexuality: Sodomitical Crossings Abroad, 1550-1850: Joseph Allen Boone -- 7. Sexualizing the Other: From Ethnopornography to Interracial Pornography in European Travel Writing about West African Women: Pernille Ipsen -- 8. "Men Like Us": The Invention of Ethnopornography: Helen Pringle
Conclusion: Ethnopornography Coda: Neil L. Whitehead -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Summary "ETHNOPORNOGRAPHY collects essays that both develop and critique the concept that gives the book its name. Ethnopornography, a term first coined by British anthropologist Walter Roth in the late nineteenth century, refers to the often eroticized observation--for supposedly scientific or academic purposes--of those deemed "other" by the observer. In Roth's case, he was concerned that the descriptions and images he recorded of the bodily and sexual practices of the Aboriginal people he studied were inappropriate for lay readers who might find them vulgar--or worse, titillating. The editors of this collection focus on what it is that creates the slippage between the pornographic and the scientific. In particular, they attend to the importance of race within the colonially created and maintained worlds of both research--ethnography in particular--and pornography. The essays cover time periods ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, locations from West Africa to the United States, and topics from the literary casting of Islamic culture as sexually excessive and deviant by the Ottomans to a personal account of racially and colonially inflected tensions stemming from an anthropologist's sexual activities while in the field"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sex -- Anthropological aspects.
Sex -- Anthropological aspects -- History
Sex customs.
Ethnology.
Race.
Racial Groups
race (group of people)
Ethnology
Race
Sex -- Anthropological aspects
Sex customs
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Sigal, Peter Herman, 1964- editor.
Tortorici, Zeb, 1978- editor.
Whitehead, Neil L., editor.
LC no. 2019981089
ISBN 1478004428
9781478004424
Other Titles Ethnopornography