Word: harkensson
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...strongly resent the anti-German nature of S. Allen Counter's letter in response to Harkensson's movie. Mr. Counter seemed to be obsessed with the image of the inherently evil German. Why does he repetitively mention that Fran Hosken is Harkensson's German companion? I have never encountered a German woman with this name, but that is irrelevant to the subject matter discussed here. Whether Harkensson's assistant is German, Jewish, black or Russian is not important...
Concerning the controversial subject matter, I am more than willing to support Mr. Counter's protest against tasteless and racist films, but I am unwilling to support his tasteless and racist criticism of Germany's filmmakers. Harkensson's film can foster prejudice against the Afro-American people but Counter's polemic references to Germany and its people will generate the same sort of prejudice that he is trying to prevent through his arguments. Florian W. J. Homm...
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 Harkensson, 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. Harkensson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that...
...Harkensson (and his German female companion Fran Hosken) proceeded to show his grotesque films to an audience of about 25, white (mostly female) students and staff. These films contained no more than redundant sequences of sexual mutilation (clitoridectomy and scarification) of five-and six-year-old black youngsters who were shrieking and fighting during the act and being restrained by older women. Most of the audience literally ran out of the room during the first few minutes of this grotesque scene. Over the protests of Mr. Harkensson and his German companion, I disrupted his presentation and demanded that...
According to authorities, these practices among remote African tribes have long since been outlawed by African governments. Moreover, where such abberant patterns exist in "primitive" cultures, they were possibly introduced by men for the subjugation of women, and simply remained in the culture for centuries, unchanged. Mr. Harkensson has neither the intellectual prowess nor academic training to elaborate on the possible origins and rationale for such patterns. He even erroneously associated this barbaric practice with Islam. Also, his outdated and cruelly staged German-made films (the German filmmakers seem to have a preoccupation with this sort of thing) have long...