{"product_id":"the-jaguar-and-the-anteater-bernard-arcand-9780860914464","title":"The Jaguar and the Anteater: Pornography Degree Zero","description":"Over the last two decades, pornography has become not only one of the most spectacularly profitable industries in the West but also, in its own way, the most innovative, with the development of more and more individualized technologies of sexual stimulation and simulation. At the same time, it has been the focus of ever fiercer debates: political, ethical and judicial. Despite the media's expanding sexual obsessions, pornography remains largely a matter of public shame, while being privately consumed by millions of citizens, now female as well as male. It is a unique phenomenon of our time, and one whose real significance is still little understood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this remarkable study Bernard Arcand approaches pornography as an anthropologist, in an attempt to explain precisely why it exists in these forms at the moment, and with what consequences. To do so, he has assembled data on the state of the industry and its technology, on its history, and on the polemics it has engendered, especially, but not exclusively, among feminists. The result is probably the most comprehensive overview of the subject ever published. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Arcand's main concern in \u003ci\u003eThe Jaguar and the Anteater\u003c\/i\u003e is to elucidate the ways in which pornography is a mirror of our modernity--how we get the porn we deserve and need. Drawing on the work of social theorists such as Lasch, Sennet, Baudrillard and Lipovetsky, he examines the consumption of pornography and its wider significance in terms of privatization, specialization, isolation and extremism. And, while stressing the peculiar originality of contemporary porn, he uses anthropological material, particularly from South American tribal societies, to suggest that the phenomenon is also a new and uncertain response to a series of elementary questions concerning modesty and desire, masturbation and inhibition, death and illusions of eternal youth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bernard Arcand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0860914461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780860914464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.33w x 1.08d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/1993 pg. 725\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/22\/1993","brand":"Bernard Arcand","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072848457983,"sku":"9780860914464","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_91d37fec-0224-4720-8fd5-4667703c1194.jpg?v=1685444289","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-jaguar-and-the-anteater-bernard-arcand-9780860914464","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}