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Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle

Door Roslyn Poignant

Categorie	Algemeen Landen & Volkeren
Boeknummer	#409021-LB11
Titel	Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle
Auteur	Poignant, Roslyn
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New Haven : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	030010247X
ISBN13	9780300102475
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, numerous illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting	In August 1882 the circus impresario P. T. Barnum called for examples of "all the uncivilized races in existence.” In response, the showman R. A. Cunningham shipped two groups of Australian Aborigines to the United States. They were displayed as "cannibals” in circuses, dime museums, fairgrounds, and other showplaces in America and Europe and examined and photographed by anthropologists. Roslyn Poignant tells the fascinating and often searing story of the transformation of the Aboriginal travelers into accomplished performers, professional savages who survived at least for a short time by virtue of the strengths they drew from their own culture and their individual adaptability. Most died somewhere on tour. A century later, the mummified body of Tambo, the first to di... (Lees verder)e, was discovered in the basement of a recently closed funeral home in Cleveland, Ohio. Poignant recounts how Tambo's posthumous repatriation stimulated a cultural renewal within the community from which he came, exposing the roots of present social and economic injustices experienced by indigenous Australians.
Pagina's	302
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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