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

• Author: Demski, Dagnosław.
• TeilnehmendeR: Czarnecka, Dominika.
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest : : Central European University Press,, 2022.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (462 pages)

Table of 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.