Ethnopornography

Author : Pete Sigal,Zeb Tortorici,Neil L. Whitehead
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478004424

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Ethnopornography by Pete Sigal,Zeb Tortorici,Neil L. Whitehead Pdf

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

Author : PETE SIGAL; ZEB TORTORICI; NEIL L. WHITEHEAD.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1478090073

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ETHNOPORNOGRAPHY;SEXUALITY, COLONIALISM, AND ARCHIVAL KNOWLEDGE by PETE SIGAL; ZEB TORTORICI; NEIL L. WHITEHEAD. Pdf

"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"--

Author : PETE SIGAL; ZEB TORTORICI; NEIL L. WHITEHEAD.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1478090073

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ETHNOPORNOGRAPHY;SEXUALITY, COLONIALISM, AND ARCHIVAL KNOWLEDGE by PETE SIGAL; ZEB TORTORICI; NEIL L. WHITEHEAD. Pdf

"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"--

Author : Matthew B. Locey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476647449

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White Lens on Brown Skin by Matthew B. Locey Pdf

From the earliest accounts of contact with Europeans, Polynesians have been perceived as sensual and sexual beings. By the late 1800s, publications, lectures and stage plays about the Pacific became popular across Europe, and often contained exotic and erotic components. This book details the fusion of truth and fiction in the representation of Pacific Islanders, focusing on the sexualization of Polynesians in American cinema and other forms of mass communications and commercial entertainment. With messaging almost subliminal to American audiences, the Hollywood media machine produced hundreds of tropical film titles with images of revealing grass skirts, scanty sarongs, female toplessness and glistening exposed male pectorals. This critical filmography demonstrates how the concept of "sex sells," especially when applied on a large scale, shaped American social views on Polynesian people and their culture. Chapters document this phenomenon and an annotated filmography of sexualized tropes and several appendices conclude the book, including a glossary of Polynesian terms and a film index.

Author : Tim Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429513879

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Pornography, Indigeneity and Neocolonialism by Tim Gregory Pdf

Pornography, Indigeneity and Neocolonialism examines how pornography operates as a representational system that authenticates settler colonies, focussing on American and Australian examples to reveal how pornography encodes whiteness, pleasure, colonisation and Indigeneity. This is the first text to use decolonial and queer theory to examine the role of pornography in America and Australia, as part of a network of neocolonial strategies that "naturalise" occupation. It is also the first study to focus on Indigenous people in pornography, providing a framework for understanding explicit representations of First Nations peoples. Pornography, Indigeneity and Neocolonialism defines the characteristics of heterosexual pornography in settler colonies, exposing how the landscape is presented as both exotic and domestic – a land of taboo pleasures that is tamed and occupied by and through white bodies. Examining the absence of Indigenous porn actors and arguing against the hypervisual fetishising of Black bodies that dominates racialised porn discourse, the book places this absence within the context of legal, political and military neocolonial Indigenous elimination strategies. This book will be of key interest to researchers and students studying porn studies, media and film studies, critical race studies and whiteness studies.

Author : Pete Sigal
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780822351511

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The Flower and the Scorpion by Pete Sigal Pdf

Sigal argues that sixteenth century Nahua sexuality cannot be fully understood only through colonial sensibilities and sources. He examines legal documents, clerical texts, pictorial manuscripts, images and glyphs of Nahua gods and goddesses and descriptions of fertility rituals and other historical accounts and stories to show the complexity of Nahua sexuality.

Author : Joseph A. Boone
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231521826

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The Homoerotics of Orientalism by Joseph A. Boone Pdf

One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism. To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and desires, Boone deploys a supple mode of analysis that reveals how the cultural exchanges between Middle East and West have always been reciprocal and often mutual, amatory as well as bellicose. Whether examining European accounts of Istanbul and Egypt as hotbeds of forbidden desire, juxtaposing Ottoman homoerotic genres and their European imitators, or unlocking the homoerotic encoding in Persian miniatures and Orientalist paintings, this remarkable study models an ethics of crosscultural reading that exposes, with nuance and economy, the crucial role played by the homoerotics of Orientalism in shaping the world as we know it today. A contribution to studies in visual culture as well as literary and social history, The Homoerotics of Orientalism draws on primary sources ranging from untranslated Middle Eastern manuscripts and European belles-lettres to miniature paintings and photographic erotica that are presented here for the first time.

Author : Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Civil rights movements
ISBN : 9780520398948

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Erotic Resistance by Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa Pdf

"Erotic Resistance is an act of memory preservation regarding San Francisco's foundational role in the erotic entertainment and sex industries of the United States. It highlights the contributions of women of color, queer women, and trans women who were instrumental at key moments in the city's history concerning labor as well as the LGBT and sex workers' rights movements. In the 1960s, topless entertainment became legal in San Francisco for the first time in US history, although cross-dressing continued to be criminalized. In yet another first instance in US history, San Francisco activist-strippers, who were also artists, led successful class action lawsuits and efforts to unionize in the strip club industry in the 1990s. Using diverse methods, including ethnography, visual and performance analysis, and historiography, Erotic Resistance relates these phenomena through archival materials, artworks, and original interviews with women who performed in San Francisco's burlesque scene and strip club industry during these time periods"--

Author : Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks,Mathew Kuefler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108901284

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The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 1, General Overviews by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks,Mathew Kuefler Pdf

Volume I offers historiographical surveys and general overviews of central topics in the history of world sexualities. Split across twenty-two chapters, this volume places the history of sexuality in dialogue with anthropology, women's history, LGBTQ+ history, queer theory, and public history, as well as examining the impact Freud and Foucault have had on the history of sexuality. The volume continues by providing overviews on the sexual body, family and marriage, the intersections of sexuality with race and class, male and female homoerotic relations, trans and gender variant sexuality, the sale of sex, sexual violence, sexual science, sexuality and emotion, erotic art and literature, and the material culture of sexuality.

Author : Irvin C. Schick
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789601619

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The Erotic Margin by Irvin C. Schick Pdf

Gender and sexuality have long held an important place in western attitudes towards the people and regions of the world-from the titillating accounts of harem life in the Middle East to terrifying captivity narratives of North America. The Erotic Margin is a first attempt to pull together the large, disparate, and often contradictory literature, and view it as a corpus. Schick argues that such images served to construct spatial difference, and thereby helped Europe represent its own place in the world during an age of rapid geographical expansion. Informed by the recent literature on human geography as well as feminist and postcolonial theory, The Erotic Margin focuses on erotica and sexual anthropology as well as travel literature in which, from the eighteenth century on, both traveler and destination were portrayed in unmistakably gendered and sexualized terms. Reviewing examples ranging from the New World to India, the Near East to black Africa, and the South sea islands to the Barbary Coast, the book reflects on why foreign women were variously portrayed as alluring or threatening, foreign men as effeminate weaklings or dangerous rapists, and foreign lands as sexual idylls or hearts of darkness.

Author : Kelly Ray Knight
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822375180

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addicted.pregnant.poor by Kelly Ray Knight Pdf

For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this stunning ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and asks what kinds of futures are possible for them given their seemingly hopeless situation. During her four years of fieldwork Knight documented women’s struggles as they traveled from the street to the clinic, jail, and family court, and back to the hotels. She approaches addicted pregnancy as an everyday phenomenon in these women's lives and describes how they must navigate the tension between pregnancy's demands to stay clean and the pull of addiction and poverty toward drug use and sex work. By creating the space for addicted women's own narratives and examining addicted pregnancy from medical, policy, and social science perspectives, Knight forces us to confront and reconsider the ways we think about addiction, trauma, health, criminality, and responsibility.

Author : Russell McDougall,Iain Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315417288

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The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration by Russell McDougall,Iain Davidson Pdf

No family better represents the overlapping roles of administrator and scientist in the British empire than the Roths. This title assesses the often conflicting roles and contributions of the Roths as government servants and anthropologists.

Author : Walter Edmund Roth,Robert Etheridge (Junior)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : HARVARD:32044051122489

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Ethnological Studies Among the North-west-central Queensland Aborigines by Walter Edmund Roth,Robert Etheridge (Junior) Pdf

details of manufacture - koolamons, native chisels (throughout N.W.

Author : Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred Maury,Josiah Clark Nott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Acclimatization
ISBN : EHC:148100214702U

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Indigenous Races of the Earth, Or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry by Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred Maury,Josiah Clark Nott Pdf

Author : Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478002048

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Picasso's Demoiselles by Suzanne Preston Blier Pdf

In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings. Drawing on her expertise in African art and newly discovered sources, Blier reads the painting not as a simple bordello scene but as Picasso's interpretation of the diversity of representations of women from around the world that he encountered in photographs and sculptures. These representations are central to understanding the painting's creation and help identify the demoiselles as global figures, mothers, grandmothers, lovers, and sisters, as well as part of the colonial world Picasso inhabited. Simply put, Blier fundamentally transforms what we know about this revolutionary and iconic work.