TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donham,Donald L.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Erotics of History : : An Atlantic African Example / 
SN  - 9780520968875
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Erotica
KW  - fast
KW  - Fetishism (Sexual behavior)
KW  - Sex
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Africains
KW  - Sexualite
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe
KW  - Afrique
KW  - Érotisme
KW  - Fetichisme (Psychanalyse)
KW  - Africans
KW  - Sexual behavior
KW  - History
KW  - Africa
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Heading south : an introduction -- Ethnography interruptus -- The concept of the fetish -- African origins -- The poverty of sexuality -- African sexual extraversion and getting in bed with Robert Mapplethorpe -- Para-ethnography, golf, and the internet -- White slavery -- Love and money, romance and scam -- Conclusion : towards an understanding of erotics; Open Access
N2  - "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."--Provided by publisher
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/63412/
ER  -