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Ethnopornography : Sexuality, Colonialism, and Anthropological/Archival Knowledge / Zeb Tortorici, Neil L. Whitehead, Pete Sigal.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, North Carolina, USA : Duke University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2019: HSS Frontlist Books
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103794
- ISBN:
- 9781478004424
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004424
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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