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Human Zoos

From the Hottentot Venus to Reality Shows

Edited by Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard, Gilles Boëtsch, Eric Deroo, Sandrine

Human Zoos
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Edited by Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard, Gilles Boëtsch, Eric Deroo, Sandrine

Distributed for Liverpool University Press

Translated by Teresa Bridgeman
352 pages | 40 color plates | 6 x 9
Cloth $85.00 ISBN: 9781846311239 Published January 2009 For sale in North America only
Paper $39.95 ISBN: 9781846311741 Published January 2009 For sale in North America only
One of the first modern exhibitions of living humans was produced by the great American showman and charlatan P. T. Barnum who infamously introduced the public to Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker and George Washington’s supposed “mammy,” Joice Heth, in 1835. Human zoo exhibits like Barnum’s—forgotten symbols of the colonial area predicated on a vague scientific racism—have been largely  repressed in our collective memory. Human Zoos, which begins with the early nineteenth-century exhibition of the Hottentot Venus and proceeds through a history of showcasing “savages” and “peoples of the world”—in New York, Moscow, Paris, and Tokyo, among other places—in a chronicle of our cultural effort to present the Other as a spectacle, unearths the men, women, and children who became extras in an imaginary history that was by no means their own. A bestseller on its original publication in France, with the addition of newly commissioned chapters and a contemporary translation, this unique and remarkable volume discusses a crucial phenomenon at the heart of Western fantasies, allowing us to understand anew the genesis of popular racism and cultural identity that fueled our fascination with colonial and imperial cultures.
Contents

List of Contributors

Human Zoos: The Greatest Exotic Shows in the West: Introduction

Pascal Blanchard, Niscolas Bancel, Gilles Boëtsch, Éric Deroo and Sandrine Lemaire

Part I

The Specificity of the Human Zoo: Histories and Definitions

1. From Wonder to Error: Monsters from Antiquity to Modernity

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

2. The Hottentot Venus: Birth of a “Freak” (1815)

Gilles Boëtsch and Pascal Blanchard

3. Barnum and Joice Heth: The Birth of Ethnic Shows in the United States (1836)

Benjamin Reiss

4. London, Capital of Exotic Exhibitions from 1830 to 1860

Nadja Durbach

5. When the Exotic Becomes a Show

Robert Bogdan

6. Ethnographic Showcases: Account and Vision

Raymond Corbey

7. From Scientific Racism to Popular and Colonial Racism in France and the West

Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel and Snadrine Lemaire

8. Human Zoos: The “Savage” and the Anthropologist

Gilles Boëtsch and Yann Ardagna

9. The Cinema as Zoo-keeper

Éric Deroo

Part II
Models of the Human Zoo: Populations On Display

10. American Indians in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West

Sam Maddra

11. The Ethnographic Exhibitions of the Jardin Zoologique d’Acclimatation

William H. Schneider

12. The Onas Exhibited in the Musée du Nord, Brussels: Reconstruction of a Lost File

Peter Mason

13. Meeting the Amazons

Suzanne Preston Blier

14. Hagenbeck’s European Tours: The Development of the Human Zoo

Hilke Thode-Arora

15. Africa Meets the Great Farini

Shane Peacock

16. India and Ceylon in Colonial and World Fairs (1851-1931)

Catherine Servan-Schreiber

17. Seeing the Imaginary: On the Popular Reception of Wild West Shows in Germany, 1885-1910

Eric Ames

18. Billy the Australian in the Anthropological Laboratory

Roslyn Poignant

19. Dr Kahn and the Niam-Niams

Bernth Lindfors

20. Photography and the Making of the Other

Elizabeth Edwards

Part III

National Identities: The Human Zoo in Context

21. Colonial Expositions and Ethnic Hierarchies in Modern Japan

Armaud Nanta

22. The Imperial Exhibitions of Great Britain

John MacKenzie

23. The Congolese in “Imperial” Belgium

Jean-Pierre Jacquemin

24. Freaks and Geeks: Coney Island Sideshow Performers and Long Island Eugenicists, 1910-1935

Tanfer Emin Tunc

25. Africans in America: African Villages at America’s World’s Fairs (1893-1901)

Robert W. Rydell

26. The 1904 St Louis Anthropological Games

Fabrice Delsahut

27. From the Diorama to the Dialogic: A Century of Exhibiting Africa at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Mary Jo Arnoldi

28. Human Zoos in Switzerland

Patrick Minder

29. Living Ethnological and Colonial Exhibitions in Liberal and Fascist Italy

Gido Abbattista and Nicola Labanca

30. Exhibiting People in Spain: Colonialism and Mass Culture

Neus Moyano Miranda

31. The Zoos of the Exposition Coloniale Internationale, Paris 1931

Herman Lebovics

Postface: Situating Human Zoos

Charles Forsdick

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