Staged Otherness : Ethnic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe, 1850-1939.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Budapest :
Central European University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front cover
- Front matter
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- A map of the routes of non-European troupes across Central and Eastern Europe
- Introduction: From Western to Peripheral Voices
- PART ONE: EUROPEAN VERSUS INDIGENOUS AGENCY
- The Hagenbeck Ethnic Shows: Recruitment, Organization, and Academic and Popular Responses
- A Brief History of Staging Somali Ethnographic Performing Troupes in Europe, 1885-1930
- "Wild Chamacoco" and the Czechs: The Double-Edged Ethnographic Show of Vojtěch Frič, 1908-9
- Why Hidden Ears Matter: On Kalintsov's Samoyed Exhibition in Vienna, 1882
- PART TWO: PERFORMING THE ETHNOGRAPHIC OTHER
- The (Ethno-)Drama of Exoticism: Ethnic Shows as a Medium
- How Do These "Exotic" Bodies Move? Ethnographic Shows and Constructing Otherness in the Polish-Language Press, 1880-1914
- The World of Creation: Press Accounts of Ethnographic Shows in Circus Performances in Upper Silesia
- PART THREE ACROSS LOCAL CONTEXTS
- Racialized Performance and the Construction of Slovene Whiteness: Ethnographic Shows and Circus Acts on the Habsburg Periphery, 1880-1914
- A Century of Elision? Ethnic Shows in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, 1879-1914
- "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
- The Call of the Wild: A Sociological Sketch of Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Banat and Transylvania
- "Staged Otherness" in Saint Petersburg
- Epilogue
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Back cover.