Human Exhibitions

Author : Rikke Andreassen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131712040X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Exhibitions written by Rikke Andreassen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard Potts
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426206062
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Does it Mean to be Human? written by Richard Potts and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generously illustrated book tells the story of the human family, showing how our species' physical traits and behaviors evolved over millions of years as our ancestors adapted to dramatic environmental changes. In What Does It Means to Be Human? Rick Potts, director of the Smithsonian's Human Origins Program, and Chris Sloan, National Geographic's paleoanthropolgy expert, delve into our distant past to explain when, why, and how we acquired the unique biological and cultural qualities that govern our most fundamental connections and interactions with other people and with the natural world. Drawing on the latest research, they conclude that we are the last survivors of a once-diverse family tree, and that our evolution was shaped by one of the most unstable eras in Earth's environmental history. The book presents a wealth of attractive new material especially developed for the Hall's displays, from life-like reconstructions of our ancestors sculpted by the acclaimed John Gurche to photographs from National Geographic and Smithsonian archives, along with informative graphics and illustrations. In coordination with the exhibit opening, the PBS program NOVA will present a related three-part television series, and the museum will launch a website expected to draw 40 million visitors.

Author : Edward Steichen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671554118
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The family of man written by Edward Steichen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pascal Blanchard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846311239
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Zoos written by Pascal Blanchard and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Human zoos, forgotten symbols of the colonial era, have been totally repressed in our collective memory. In these 'anthropo-zoological' exhibitions, 'exotic' individuals were placed alongside wild beasts and presented behind bars or in enclosures. Human zoos were a key factor, however, in the progressive shift in the West from scientific to popular racism. Beginning with the early nineteenth-century European exhibition of the Hottentot Venus, this volume underlines the ways in which these exhibitions affected the lives of tens of millions of visitors, from London to New York, from Warsaw to Milan, from Moscow to Tokyo." "Human Zoos puts into perspective the 'spectacularization' of the Other, a process that is at the origin of contemporary stereotypes and of the construction of our own identities. This is a unique book on a crucial phenomenon, which takes us to the heart of Western fantasies and allows us to understand the genesis of identity in Japan, Europe and North America."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439190011
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Course of Human Events written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years after his first book, David McCullough wrote and presented his speech, The Course of Human Events, in the 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, in which he divulges his philosophy on writing, speaking, and history in his masterful storytelling style. In this Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, David McCullough draws on his personal experience as a historian to acknowledge the crucial importance of writing in history’s enduring impact and influence, and he affirms the significance of history in teaching us about human nature through the ages.

Author : Vincenzo Spiaggi
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463439849
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural Order of Human Events written by Vincenzo Spiaggi and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family members of the Secretary General of the United Nations are murdered in a homicide bombing in Jerusalem. Overcome with grief, the Secretary General then takes his own life. His successor, Mikki Paarsalu of Estonia, vows to reform the corrupt international organization; but during his acceptance speech, he steps on a few toes and makes a few enemies. Th e Natural Order Of Human Events chronicles the efforts of Paarsalus enemies as they try to teach him a lesson for his public humiliation of them. Those enemies include a powerful mullah at a mosque in Boulder, Colorado, and a Middle Eastern ambassador to the United Nations. Th e story also tracks the efforts of Paarsalus friends as they try to protect him from his enemies. Working in his behalf are: Johnny Skull, who is on his own mission of revenge; a U.S. Congressman and an Israeli Mossad agent; Jimmie Masroun, a co-ed at the University of Wyoming, and her Italian cousin Fannie Scalisi; Saundra Jessup and Paul Davidson, reporters for The Sheridan County Sunrise, an award-winning weekly newspaper in the Village of Story, Wyoming; and, members of World Interconnect, or WI-7, an international terrorist-tracking organization, which includes Jenny Jessup, a new recruit. WI-7 believes that the Yemeni jihadist, Abu Zulu, is the man behind the plot to harm Paarsalu and the hunt for Abu Zulu begins.

Author : Nicolas Bancel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317801172
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Race written by Nicolas Bancel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial exhibitions and ethnic shows. A deep epistemological change took place in Europe in this domain toward the end of the eighteenth century, producing new scientific representations of race and thereby triggering a radical transformation in the visual economy relating to race and racial representation and its inscription in the body. These practices would play defining roles in shaping public consciousness and the representation of “otherness” in modern societies. The Invention of Race provides contextualization that is often lacking in contemporary discussions on diversity, multiculturalism and race.

Author : Janne Lahti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317285336
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American West and the World written by Janne Lahti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context.

Author : Sadiah Qureshi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226700968
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peoples on Parade written by Sadiah Qureshi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the phenomenon of human exhibitions in nineteenth-century Britain and considers how this legacy informs understandings of race and empire today.

Author : Gunther von Hagens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783937256092
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gunther Von Hagens' Body Worlds - the Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies written by Gunther von Hagens and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This video provides "a commented tour of the exhibition, explanations on the revolutionary Plastination technique, an interview with Dr. Gunther von Hagens and information on the exhibition"--Cover.