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oapen-20.500.12657-301632024-03-25T09:51:14Z The Erotics of History Donham, Donald photography the internet paraethnography sex tourism sadomasochism slavery colonialism fetish eroticism the black body capitalism scams sexuality homosexuality golf atlantic africa Ethnic groups in Europe Human sexuality thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free—as something that individuals discover about themselves. Rather, Donald L. Donham argues that historical circumstance, local social pressure, and the cultural construction of much beyond sex condition the erotic. Donham makes this argument in relation to the centuries-old conversation on the fetish, applied to a highly unusual neighborhood in Atlantic Africa. There, local men, soon to be married to local women, are involved in long-term sexual relationships with European men. On the African side, these couplings are motivated by the pleasures of cosmopolitan connection and foreign commodities. On the other side, Europeans tend to fetishize Africans’ race, while a few search to become slaves in master/ slave relationships. At its most wide ranging, The Erotics of History attempts to show that it is history, both personal and collective, in reversals and reenactments, that finally produces sexual excitement. 2018-05-08 00:00:00 2020-04-01T12:46:48Z 2020-04-01T12:46:48Z 2018 book 649674 OCN: 1028980512 9780520968875 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30163 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 649674.pdf https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.45 University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.45 10.1525/luminos.45 72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b 9780520968875 152 Oakland open access
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The Erotics of History challenges long-standing notions of sexuality as stable and context-free—as something that individuals discover about themselves. Rather, Donald L. Donham argues that historical circumstance, local social pressure, and the cultural construction of much beyond sex condition the erotic. Donham makes this argument in relation to the centuries-old conversation on the fetish, applied to a highly unusual neighborhood in Atlantic Africa. There, local men, soon to be married to local women, are involved in long-term sexual relationships with European men. On the African side, these couplings are motivated by the pleasures of cosmopolitan connection and foreign commodities. On the other side, Europeans tend to fetishize Africans’ race, while a few search to become slaves in master/ slave relationships. At its most wide ranging, The Erotics of History attempts to show that it is history, both personal and collective, in reversals and reenactments, that finally produces sexual excitement.
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