Anthropologica
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Anthropologica is this wiki's term for either serious works of sexual anthropology or works that are used as a pretext to explore prurient interests, or vice versa (prurient interests disguised as works of anthropology).
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 and Orientalism.
Falstaff Press was an American publisher of anthropologica. Their books blurred where the scholarly ended and the prurient began. Similar publishers included Panurge Press.
Richard Francis Burton and Margaret Mead also deserve mention here as well as The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia.
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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).
There are also strands of anthropology in the oeuvre of Marquis de Sade.
19th century
Richard Francis Burton's "Terminal Essay", Friedrich Karl Forberg, glossaries of eroticism
20th century
- Anthropophyteia (1904-13), Kryptádia (1883-1911) and Maledicta (1977-2005)
- The History of Human Marriage (1891) by Edvard Westermarck
- The Mothers (1927) by Robert Briffault
- Das Weib bei den Naturvölkern, (c. 1920) a book by German anthropologist Ferdinand Freiherr von Reitzenstein.
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 (1821 – 1890), The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929) by Bronisław Malinowski (1884 – 1942) and Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) by Margaret Mead (1901 – 1978) also deserve mention here.
Mondo films
- Africa Addio (1966)
See also
- Ethnographic_female_toplessness
- 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