Description: 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--the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes--is fundamental to the creation of race, colonialism, and archival and ethnographic knowledge.
Review Quotes: "Making powerful arguments and bold methodological claims, this ambitious collection confronts the genealogies of ethnopornographic circulations while offering exemplary readings of ethnopornographic objects and optics. A significant intervention in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, critical theory, and beyond."--Antoinette Burton, author of "Africa in the Indian Imagination: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation"