Buch
Monografie
Ethnopornography : sexuality, colonialism, and archival knowledge
Herausgegeben von:
Sigal, Peter Herman
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Durham:
Duke University Press
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2020
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270 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Sigal, Peter Herman; Tortorici, Zeb; Whitehead, Neil L. |
| Jahr: | 2020 |
| Maße: | 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1478003847 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography—the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of race and colonialism as well as archival and ethnographic knowledge. Among other topics, they analyze eighteenth-century European travelogues, photography and the sexualization of African and African American women, representations of sodomy throughout the Ottoman empire, racialized representations in a Brazilian gay pornographic magazine, colonial desire in the 2007 pornographic film Gaytanamo, the relationship between sexual desire and ethnographic fieldwork in Africa and Australia, and Franciscan friars' voyeuristic accounts of indigenous people's “sinful” activities. Outlining how in the ethnopornographic encounter the reader or viewer imagines direct contact with the Other from a distance, the contributors trace ethnopornography's role in creating racial categories and its grounding in the relationship between colonialism and the erotic gaze. In so doing, they theorize ethnography as a form of pornography that is both motivated by the desire to render knowable the Other and invested with institutional power. *** Contributors: Joseph A. Boone, Pernille Ipsen, Sidra Lawrence, Beatrix McBride, Mireille Miller-Young, Bryan Pitts, Helen Pringle, Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, Neil L. Whitehead *** "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" *** Introduction: Ethnopornography as Methodology and Critique: Merging the Ethno-, the Porno-, and the -Graphos by Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, and Neil l. Whitehead *** 1 PART I VISUALIZING RACE *** Exotic/Erotic/Ethnopornographic: Black Women, Desire, and Labor in the Photographic Archive by Mireille Miller-Young *** Hung, Hot, and Shameless in Bed”: Blackness, Desire, and Politics in a Brazilian Gay Porn Magazine, 1997–2008 by Bryan Pitts *** The Ghosts of Gaytanamo by Beatrix McBride *** Under White Men’s Eyes: Racialized Eroticism, Ethnographic Encounters, and the Maintenance of the Colonial Order by Sidra Lawrence *** PART II ETHNOPORNOGRAPHY AS COLONIAL HISTORY *** Franciscan Voyeurism in Sixteenth- Century New Spain by Pete Sigal *** European Travelogues and Ottoman Sexuality: Sodomitical Crossings Abroad, 1550–1850 by Joseph Allen Boone *** Sexualizing the Other: From Ethnopornography to Interracial Pornography in European Travel Writing about West African Women by Pernille Ipsen *** “Men Like Us”: The Invention of Ethnopornography by Helen Pringle *** Conclusion: Ethnopornography Coda by Neil L. Whitehead *** |
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