x, 445 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., (some col.); 24 cm.
Summary
"Human zoos, forgotten symbols of the colonial era, have been totally repressed in our collective memory. In these 'anthropo-zoological' exhibitions, 'exotic' individuals were placed alongside wild beasts and presented behind bars or in enclosures. Human zoos were a key factor, however, in the progressive shift in the West from scientific to popular racism. Beginning with the early nineteenth-century European exhibition of the Hottentot Venus, this volume underlines the ways in which these exhibitions affected the lives of tens of millions of visitors, from London to New York, from Warsaw to Milan, from Moscow to Tokyo." "Human Zoos puts into perspective the 'spectacularization' of the Other, a process that is at the origin of contemporary stereotypes and of the construction of our own identities. This is a unique book on a crucial phenomenon, which takes us to the heart of Western fantasies and allows us to understand the genesis of identity in Japan, Europe and North America."--Jacket.
Uniform Title
Zoos humains, XIXe et XXe siècles. English.
Alternative Title
Science and spectacle in the age of colonial empires
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.