x, 445 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Aufsatzsammlung
Date:
2008
Notes:
ANTH copy 39088015621592 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of William H. Plank.
AFA copy 39088019023035 is a gift from Janet Stanley.
Contents:
The specificity of the human zoo : histories and definitions -- Models of the human zoo : populations on display -- National identities : the human zoo in context
From wonder to error: monsters from antiquity to modernity / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- The Hottentot Venus: birth of a 'freak' (1815) / Gilles Boëtsch and Pascal Blanchard -- Barnum and Joice Heth: the birth of the ethnic shows in the United States (1836) / Benjamin Reiss -- London, capital of exotic exhibitions from 1830-1860 / Nadja Durbach -- When the exotic becomes a show / Robert Bogdan -- Ethnographic showcases: account and vision / Raymond Corbey -- From scientific racism to popular and colonial racism in France and the West / Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel and Sandrine Lemaire -- Human zoos: the 'savage' and the anthropologist / Gilles Boëtsch and Yann Ardagna -- The cinema as zoo-keeper / Éric Deroo -- American Indians in Buffalo Bill's wild West / Sam Maddra -- The ethnographic exhibitions of the Jardin Zoologique d'Acclimatation / William H. Schneider -- The Onas exhibited in the Musée du Nord, Brussels: reconstruction of a lost file / Peter Mason -- Meeting the Amazons / Suzanne Preston Blier -- Hagenbeck's European tours: the development of the human zoo / Hilke Thode-Arora -- Africa meets the Great Farini / Shane Peacock -- India and Ceylon in colonial and worlds fairs (1851-1931) / Catherine Servan-Scheriber -- Seeing the imaginary: on the popular reception of wild West shows in Germany, 1885-1910 / Eric Ames -- Billy the Australian in the anthropological laboratory / Roslyn Poignant -- Dr Kahn and the Niam-Niams / Bernth Lindfors -- Photography and the making of the other / Elizabeth Edwards -- Colonial expositions and ethnic hierarchies in modern Japan / Arnaud Nanta -- The imperial exhibitions of Great Britain / John MacKenzie -- The Congolese in 'imperial' Belgium / Jean-Pierre Jacquemin -- Freaks and geeks: Coney Island sideshow performers and Long Island eugenicists, 1910-1935 / Tanfer Emin Tunc -- Africans in America: African villages at America's world's fairs (1893-1901) / Robert W. Rydell -- The 1904 St. Louis anthropological games / Fabrice Delsahut -- From the diorama to the dialogic: a century of exhibiting Africa at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History / Mary Jo Arnoldi -- Human zoos in Switzerland / Patrick Minder -- Living ethnological and colonial exhibitions in liberal and fascist Italy / Guido Abbattista and Nicola Labanca -- Exhibiting people in Spain: colonialism and mass culture / Neus Moyano Miranda -- The zoos of the Exposition Coloniale Internationale, Paris 1931 / Herman Lebovics -- Postface: Situating human zoos / Charles Forsdick
