Anthropologica
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Anthropologica is this wiki's term for works of sexual anthropology that are used as a pretext to explore prurient interests, or vice versa (prurient interests disguised as works of anthropology).
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18th century: precursors
Sir William Hamilton, Charles Townley, Richard Payne Knight, Vivant Denon, Baron d'Hancarville were the first to show an interest in the phallic worship of ancient erotica. In print, this resulted in the fanciful Veneres et Priapi, uti observantur in gemmis antiquis (1771, d'Hancarville), L'Oeuvre priapique (1793, Vivant Denon) and The Worship of Priapus (1786, Knight).
19th century
Richard Francis Burton , Friedrich Karl Forberg, glossaries of eroticism
20th century
Anthropophyteia, Kryptádia and Maledicta
In early filmmaking
Its analogy in early filmmaking are travelogues that showed primitive cultures, noble savages in various states of nudity: at the time, nudity was forbidden, except under the this pretense of showing 'primitive' cultures. See also human zoos.
Falstaff Press
Falstaff Press was an American publisher of anthropologica. Their books blurred where the scholarly ended and the prurient began. Similar publishers included Panurge Press.
Burton, Malinowski and Mead
The Terminal Essay (1885) by Richard Francis Burton, The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929) by Bronisław Malinowski and Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) by Margaret Mead also deserve mention here.
See also
- Anthropology
- Art as an excuse for depicting prurient interests
- Education as an excuse for depicting prurient interests
- Erotic folklore
- Pretexts for nudity in film
- Psychological anthropology
- Rationale
