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
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