1st Edition
Staged Otherness Ethnic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe, 1850-1939
460 Pages
by
Central European University Press
The cultural phenomenon of exhibiting non-European people in front of the European audiences in the 19th and 20th century was concentrated in the metropolises in the western part of the continent. Nevertheless, traveling ethnic troupes and temporary exhibitions of non-European humans took place also in territories located to the east of the Oder river and Austria. The contributors to this edited... Read more
Acknowledgments, 1. Introduction: From Western to Peripheral Voices, PART I. EUROPEAN VERSUS INDIGENOUS AGENCY, PART II. PERFORMING THE ETHNOGRAPHIC OTHER, PART III. ACROSS LOCAL CONTEXTS, Epilogue, List of Contributors, Index
Biography
Dagnoslaw Demski is an associate professor at the Centre for Ethnology and Contemporary Anthropology at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Dominika Czarnecka is an assistant professor at the Centre for Ethnology and Contemporary Anthropology at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
