Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and 'Enfreakment'

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This collection offers cultural historical analyses of enfreakment and freak shows, examining the social construction and spectacular display of wondrous, monstrous, or curious Otherness in the formerly relatively neglected region of Continental Europe. Forgotten stories are uncovered about freak-sh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kerchy, Anna
Otros Autores: Zittlau, Andrea
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
Temas:
Civilization > History.
Curiosities and wonders > Europe > History.
Freak shows > Europe > History.
Curiosity.
Exploratory Behavior
Congenital Abnormalities > history
Cultural Characteristics > history
Leisure Activities > psychology
Civilisation > Histoire.
Curiosités et merveilles > Europe > Histoire.
Exhibitions de monstres > Europe > Histoire.
Curiosité.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Curiosity
Civilization
Curiosities and wonders
Freak shows
Europe.
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of contents; introduction; leprous bodies and abject charity; missionaries, monsters, and the demon show; frontier girl goes feral in eighteenth century france; the diderot freak show; spectacular medical freakery; monstrous bodies in rudolf virchow's medical collection in nineteenth century germany; enfreakment and german medical collections; normalizing bodily difference in autobiographical narratives of the central european armless wonders carl hermann unthan and františek filip; "tiny artists from the big world"; from showbiz to the concentration camp; the freaks of chernobyl.
  • On grace and disabilitylonging for endor; contributors; index.

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