Voodoo – Eros Sex Life Of Africans, 1933
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Scarce original subscription edition of the controversial anthropological sex guide Voodoo – Eros, #296 of 495.
Bryk, Felix. Sexton, Mayne; Trans. Voodoo – Eros : Ethnological Studies in the Sex – Life of the African Aborigines. Privately Printed : New York. 1933. Signed limited subscription edition, #296 of 495.
This problematic if fascinating translation of Swedish Anthropologist Felix Bryk’s work on African sexology originally titled “Negro-Eros”, Voodoo – Eros , documents the ideas, practices, and beliefs about sex held and practiced by native groups in Uganda and Kenya in the early 20th century. Illustrated through out with black and white photographs, special emphasis is paid to body modification practices, dress, building and social structures, as well as female genitalia.
The focus in its treatment of both religion and sex is primarily the beliefs pertaining to mourning, marriage, courtship, and prostitution, including songs, rituals, and jewelry. Includes sections on sodomy, onanism, “white – black bastardy”, and circumcision. Bryk’s extended writings on the last subject were published as Circumcision in Man and Woman by the American Ethnological Press in 1934.
This true first edition, distinguished by the gilt “Subscription Edition” designation under the front board decoration, dates from before the original 1933 print run was extended from 495 to 500 copies, and ahead of the 1964 United Book Guild reprint. The same work would later form the basis of the more widely released Dark Rapture from Walden Publications in 1939.
8vo, 259pp, faded gilt decorated cloth boards with title, author, and date on spine. Wear to gilding, hinges and spine ends. Lower corners bumped. Pastedowns and endpapers gluestained. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. Stamped #296 with signature from translator, Mayne Sexton on copyright page. Correction slip, pg 11, noting that the final two lines are printed upside down. Illustrated with 104 photographs and diagrams. Good condition.
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