The aim of this article is to study the living ethnological exhibitions. The main feature of these multiform varieties of public show, which became widespread in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Europe and the United States, was the live presence of individuals who were considered “primitive”. Whilst these native peoples sometimes gave demonstrations of their skills or produced manufactures for the audience, more often their role was simply as exhibits, to display their bodies and gestures, their different and singular condition. In this article, the three main forms of modern ethnic show (commercial, colonial and missionary) will be presented, together with a warning about the inadequacy of categorising all such spectacles under...
At the turn of the 20th century, exotic shows as a form of displaying otherness gained wide pop...
In the epoch of overseas discoveries, Europeans accumulated fragments of the realities they found in...
Recent studies on human liv ethno-exhibitions have concentrated on nineteenth and twentieth centurie...
This article is part of a themed issue of "Ricerche storiche" with the title "Esposizioni Universali...
All along the nineteenth century different anthropological exhibitions were held in many countries, ...
World fairs and exhibitions served as important venues for empires to showcase their industrial and ...
The so-called "human zoos" represented an incredibly widespread and extremely popular phenomenon in ...
A large number of International, colonial and ethnological exhibitions were held in Europe and Ameri...
The author focuses on the link that can be documented between some museums and some international ex...
The second half of the nineteenth century witness an anthropology that from the narrow scientific fi...
In the nineteenth century, paying to see living foreign people perform was a popular phenomenon in E...
The present contribution concerns the European representation of the colonized world within universa...
ResumenDurante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y principios del XX, la presentación de personas en co...
En el presente artículo se pretende dilucidar ciertos conceptos referentes a la evolució...
The article explores the activities of two museums of theatrical and artistic profile: The National ...
At the turn of the 20th century, exotic shows as a form of displaying otherness gained wide pop...
In the epoch of overseas discoveries, Europeans accumulated fragments of the realities they found in...
Recent studies on human liv ethno-exhibitions have concentrated on nineteenth and twentieth centurie...
This article is part of a themed issue of "Ricerche storiche" with the title "Esposizioni Universali...
All along the nineteenth century different anthropological exhibitions were held in many countries, ...
World fairs and exhibitions served as important venues for empires to showcase their industrial and ...
The so-called "human zoos" represented an incredibly widespread and extremely popular phenomenon in ...
A large number of International, colonial and ethnological exhibitions were held in Europe and Ameri...
The author focuses on the link that can be documented between some museums and some international ex...
The second half of the nineteenth century witness an anthropology that from the narrow scientific fi...
In the nineteenth century, paying to see living foreign people perform was a popular phenomenon in E...
The present contribution concerns the European representation of the colonized world within universa...
ResumenDurante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y principios del XX, la presentación de personas en co...
En el presente artículo se pretende dilucidar ciertos conceptos referentes a la evolució...
The article explores the activities of two museums of theatrical and artistic profile: The National ...
At the turn of the 20th century, exotic shows as a form of displaying otherness gained wide pop...
In the epoch of overseas discoveries, Europeans accumulated fragments of the realities they found in...
Recent studies on human liv ethno-exhibitions have concentrated on nineteenth and twentieth centurie...