Anthropology in the oeuvre of Marquis de Sade
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Marquis de Sade had a keen interest in anthropology. In his novel Juliette he seems to have based himself on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples représésentés par des figures dessinées par Bernard Picart. Iwan Bloch has dedicated a chapter on Sade's interest in ethnology in Der Marquis de Sade und seine Zeit, entitled Ethnologische und historische Vorbilder.
- "In his Voyage d'Italie, Sade writes of a cocagne he witnessed in Naples: “the most barbarous spectacle in the world that one can possibly imagine.” This involved a public festival in which food was displayed in a public square; at the shot of a cannon, people were permitted to grab what they could, resulting in a bloody riot. In Voyage d’Italie (Paris: Tchou, 1967) p.440; cited in Berman Thoughts and Themes p.141. This same spectacle appears in Juliette (J: 999-1000). Lacombe notes the influence on Sade of abbé Banier and abbé Le Mascrier’s Histoire des Cérémonies religieuses de tous les peuples de la terre (Paris, 1741), which detailed the variety and inventiveness of torture in history. See Roger G. Lacombe Sade et ses masques (Paris: Payot, 1974)" -- "An Unblinking Gaze:On the Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade" by Geoffrey T. Roche[1]
A good deal of anthropology is also present in "Yet Another Effort".
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