Ethnographic shows

Here are entered works on travelling exhibitions or entertainments, popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that displayed aspects of foreign cultures including members of ethnic groups.

found: Work cat: Staged otherness: ethnic shows in central and eastern Europe, 1850-1939:galley (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 volume present practices of ethnographic shows ... and discuss the reactions of local audiences. The essays offer critical arguments to rethink narratives of cultural encounters in the context of ethnic shows) (DLC)2021039475

found: Corbey, Raymond. "Ethnographic Showcases, 1870-1930," in Cultural Anthropology 8, no. 3 (1993); viewed online via JSTOR, Nov. 2, 2021(Anthropological exhibits, staged by colonial powers, natives from a wide range of colonized cultures were exhibited along with their artifacts (houses, villages, etc.); ethnographic exhibits, in wider contexts of collecting, measuring, classifying, picturing, filing, and narrating colonial Others)

found: Stambler, Benita and Jennifer Lemmer Posey. "The Oriental India poster: Transnational imagery and ethnographic representation in the American circus," in Early Popular Visual Culture 13 (2015); viewed online via Semantic Scholar, Nov. 2, 2021(Barnum & Bailey's Oriental India in 1896 was the pinnacle of the focus on ethnographic shows in the American circus. The late nineteenth century had witnessed a growing trend in Europe and America for displays of the exotic aspects of foreign cultures as popular entertainment)

Here are entered works on travelling exhibitions or entertainments, popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that displayed aspects of foreign cultures including members of ethnic groups.