During the colonial era, the way in which the West tended to construct and objectify colonial entities was also manifested in the form oftwo-and three-dimensional physical reconstructions, such as the colonial pavilions at world fairs. Responding to the wide-ranging objectives of the major world fairs in the second half of the nineteenth century, these colonial pavilions were presented as symbols and representations of life in the colonies. By studying the Algerian pavilion at the 1889 Paris World Fat, the autlior states that these sites promoted a process of understanding and recontextualizing the cultures of colonized peoples that led to their appropriation and integration into the general metropolitan culture. This process took place bot...