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Human Exhibitions

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Human Exhibitions book

Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays

Human Exhibitions

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Human Exhibitions book

Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays
ByRikke Andreassen
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 1 March 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315587318
Pages 238
eBook ISBN 9781315587318
Subjects Humanities, Reference & Information Science, Social Sciences
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Andreassen, R. (2015). Human Exhibitions: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315587318

ABSTRACT

From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin were exhibited for the entertainment and ’education’ of a mass audience. Several of these exhibitions took place in Copenhagen Zoo, where different ’villages’, constructed in the middle of the zoo, hosted men, women and children, who sometimes stayed for months, performing their ’daily lives’ for thousands of curious Danes. This book draws on unique archival material newly discovered in Copenhagen, including photographs, documentary evidence and newspaper articles, to offer new insights and perspectives on the exhibitions both in Copenhagen and in other European cities. Employing post-colonial and feminist approaches to the material, the author sheds fresh light on the staging of exhibitions, the daily life of the exhibitees, the wider connections between shows across Europe and the thinking of the time on matters of race, science, gender and sexuality. A window onto contemporary racial understandings, Human Exhibitions presents interviews with the descendants of displayed people, connecting the attitudes and science of the past with both our (continued) modern fascination with ’the exotic’, and contemporary language and popular culture. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology, anthropology and history working in the areas of gender and sexuality, race, whiteness and post-colonialism.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|32 pages

Humans on Display: The Era of Human Exhibitions

chapter 2|49 pages

Race Science and Racial Hierarchies

chapter 3|33 pages

Agency and the People Behind the Exhibitions

chapter 4|54 pages

Gender, Sexuality and Romantic Relationships

chapter 5|28 pages

The Forgotten History: The End of Human Exhibitions

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