Word: explicitness
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Amnesty International is having some success in liberating victims of torture by releasing visual material of atrocities. The pathological activities of Ku Klux Klan against black people has been documented in films and "explicit photographic materials." (Alex Haley's TV Series "Roots" also shows violence against women.) According to Dr. Counter's "unwritten rule," such topics are "not worthy of scientific attention and go far beyond the realms of human decency to be presented in serious academic settings." Does the Black Students' Association agree...
...Kenyatta and read Facing Mt. Kenya. For the first time I learned about female circumcision. About 30 years later a paper on Female Infibulation was published in Studia ethnographica Upsaliensia XX, 1964, by Professor C.G. Widstand, director of the Scandinavian Africa Institute. His paper has what Dr. Counter calls "explicit photographic materials" on violence against women (and children). Dr. Counter should demand that this documentation be removed from the Harvard University Library and burned! To his outburst about my intelligence and academic training I state that apart from University and field studies in other continents, I have taken courses with...
...Swedish Internation Development Agency (equivalent to USAID) has published a booklet about genital mutilation and a group of women arranged a traveling exhibition with "explicit photographic materials." Female circumcision is considered a major health problem by an enlightened opinion who wants to give medical aid to Africa. Therefore, the Somalian delegate to the UN Conference for Women has made a film showing clitoridectomy and infibulation and SIDA has paid for copies. It was also shown at All Womens' House in Stockholm. I hope that this film will be shown at Harvard in spite of Dr. Counter's ridiculous protests...
...scholarly circles that "scientific" films and other visual materials covering such topics as experiments counducted on human subjects in Nazi Germany are not worthy of scientific attention and go too far beyond the realm of human decency to be presented in serious academic settings. Also, classroom presentation of explicit photographic materials on violence against women (an children) and other such pathological activities is considered and act of gross impropriety and is verboten in academic and other institutions of reasonable moral standards...
However, these rules of decency and discretion were violated in the most callous and tasteless manner by anthropologists at the Peabody Museum on Thursday, January 24, 1980. This group openly advertised and later presented explicit film material on clitoridectomy of small African girls. The main speaker was anthropologist Tore Hakansson, a man who has been refused academic endorsement by all institutions in his native Sweden because of lack of training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Hakansson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that...