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Africans on stage : studies in ethnological show business
- Title
- Africans on stage : studies in ethnological show business / edited by Bernth Lindfors.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Cape Town : David Philip, 1999.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lindfors, Bernth.
- Description
- xiii, 302 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Subject
- Ethnology > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Exhibitions
- Black people > Africa > Exhibitions
- Black people > Europe > Public opinion
- Black people > United States > Public opinion
- Curiosities and wonders > Africa > Exhibitions
- Performing arts > Europe > Exhibitions
- Performing arts > United States > Exhibitions
- Public opinion > Europe
- Public opinion > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Display of the body Hottentot / Z. S. Strother -- 2. Charles Dickens and the zulus / Bernth Lindfors -- 3. Africa meets the Great Farini / Shane Peacock -- 4. "Spectatorial lust": the African choir in England, 1891-1893 / Veit Erlmann -- 5. "Darkest Africa": African shows at America's world's fairs, 1893-1940 / Robert W. Rydell -- 6. A revelation in strange humanity: six Congo pygmies in Britain, 1905-1907 / Jeffrey P. Green -- 7. Ota Benga and the Barnum perplex / Harvey Blume -- 8. "Clicko": Franz Taaibosch, South African Bushman entertainer in England, France, Cuba, and the United States, 1908-1940 -- 9. Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola and the making of "An African savage's own story" / David Killingray and Willie Henderson -- "Bain's Bushmen": scenes at the Empire Exhibition, 1936 / Robert J. Gordon.
- Call Number
- Sc F 99-851
- ISBN
- 0253334683 (alk. paper)
- 0253212456 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0864863977 (pbk. : David Philip)
- LCCN
- 98050551
- OCLC
- 40331253
- Title
- Africans on stage : studies in ethnological show business / edited by Bernth Lindfors.
- Imprint
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Cape Town : David Philip, 1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Lindfors, Bernth.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 99-851