Staged Otherness : Ethnic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe, 1850-1939.

By: Demski, Dagnos�awContributor(s): Czarnecka, DominikaMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2022Copyright date: {copy}2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (462 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789633864401Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Staged OthernessOnline resources: Click to View
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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