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Staged otherness : ethnic shows in central and eastern Europe, 1850-1939 /

"The cultural phenomenon of exhibiting non-European people in front of the European audiences in the 19th and 20th century was concentrated in the metropolises in the western part of the continent. Nevertheless, traveling ethnic troupes and temporary exhibitions of non-European humans took plac...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2021.
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  • Introduction : From Western to Peripheral Voices / Dominika Czarnecka and Dagnosław Demski
  • Part 1. European Versus Indigenous Agency. The Hagenbeck Ethnic Shows : Recruitment, Organization, and Academic and Popular Responses / Hilke Thode-Arora ; A Brief History of Staging Somali Ethnographic Performing Troupes in Europe, 1885-1930 / Bodhari Warsame ; "Wild Chamacoco" and the Czechs : The Double-Edged Ethnographic Show of Vojtěch Frič, 1908-9 / Markéta Křížová ; Why Hidden Ears Matter : On Kalintsov's Samoyed Exhibition in Vienna, 1882 / Evgeny Savitsky
  • Part 2. Performing the Ethnographic Other. The (Ethno-)Drama of Exoticism : Ethnic Shows as a Medium / Dagnosław Demski ; How Do These "Exotic" Bodies Move? Ethnographic Shows and Constructing Otherness in the Polish-Language Press, 1880-1914 / Dominika Czarnecka ; The World of Creation : Press Accounts of Ethnographic Shows in Circus Performances in Upper Silesia / Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska
  • Part 3. Across Local Contexts. Racialized Performance and the Construction of Slovene Whiteness : Ethnographic Shows and and Circus Acts on the Habsburg Periphery, 1880-1914 / Andreja Mesarič ; A Century of Elision? Ethnic Shows in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, 1879-1914 / Maria Leskinen ; "When Winter Arrives, the Sinhalese Go Back to Ceylon and Their Elephants Go to Hamburg" : Hagenbeck's Sinhalese Caravans and Ethnographic Imagery in the Polish Press during the Partition Era / Izabela Kopania ; The Call of the Wild: A Sociological Sketch of Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Banat and Transylvania / Timea Barabas ; "Staged Otherness" in Saint Petersburg / István Sántha
  • Epilogue.