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Human Zoos
Pascal Blanchard (Ed.)
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Description for Human Zoos
Hardcover. Based on the volume "Zoos Humains", this title 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. It takes us to the heart of Western fantasies, and allows us to understand the genesis of identity in Japan, Europe and North America. Editor(s): Blanchard, Pascal; Bancel, Nicolas; Boetsch, Gilles; Deroo, Eric; Lemaire, Sandrine; Forsdick, Charles. Translator(s): Bridgeman, Teresa. Num Pages: 452 pages, 28 colour plates, 52 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; JHM; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 880.
‘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 thoroughly documented volume underlines the ways in which they affected the lives of tens of millions of visitors, from London to New York, from Warsaw to Milan, from Moscow to Tokyo… Through Barnum’s freak shows, ... Read more
‘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 thoroughly documented volume underlines the ways in which they affected the lives of tens of millions of visitors, from London to New York, from Warsaw to Milan, from Moscow to Tokyo… Through Barnum’s freak shows, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
452
Condition
New
Number of Pages
452
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846311239
SKU
V9781846311239
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About Pascal Blanchard (Ed.)
Charles Forsdick is Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge.
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