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100 1 $aPoignant, Roslyn.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50020167
245 10 $aProfessional savages :$bcaptive lives and Western spectacle /$cRoslyn Poignant.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axv, 302 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [278]-293) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : the journey --$g1.$tMeet the travellers --$g2.$t'Now enough' --$g3.$tColonial circuits --$g4.$tAmerican spectacle : 'attractions of wonder' --$g5.$tEuropean spectacle --$g6.$tPalaces of illusion and scientific discipline --$g7.$t'Rare strangers' --$g8.$tTo Constantinople and back --$g9.$tAbsent presence : 'Billy - Australien' at the Paris Exposition, 1889 --$g10.$tKing Bill and company : the story of the second group --$g11.$tWelcome home Tambo.
520 1 $a"In August 1882 the circus impresario P. T. Barnum wrote to American consulates and agents around the world for assistance in assembling a collection 'of all the uncivilized races in existence'. Within months the showman and self-declared man-hunter R. A. Cunningham, already in Australia, had 'recruited' a group of North Queensland Aborigines and shipped them to San Francisco." "In this narrative, Roslyn Poignant pieces together the experience of two groups of reluctant travellers. Exhibited in circuses, dime museums, fairgrounds and other show places in America and Europe, they were also examined, measured and photographed by anthropologists. Displayed as cannibals and brutish specimens on the metropolitan exhibition circuit - Crystal Palace in London, the Folies-Bergere in Paris, Berlin's Panopitkum, St. Petersburg's Arcadia, the imperial court in Constantinople, the World's Fair in Chicago and Coney Island, New York - they transformed themselves into accomplished show people and professional savages." "Thrust into the harsh world of commercial spectacle, the survival of the Aboriginal performers depended on the strengths they drew from their own culture and their individual adaptability. Few ever returned to Australia. Most died somewhere on tour. A century later, in October 1993, the mummified body of Tambo, the first to die, was discovered in the basement of a recently closed funeral home in Cleveland, Ohio. Tambo's posthumous repatriation stimulated a cultural renewal within the community from which he came and exposed the roots of present social and economic injustices experienced by Indigenous Australians."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aBarnum and Bailey$xHistory.
650 0 $aAboriginal Australians in popular culture$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAboriginal Australians$xPublic opinion.
650 0 $aCircus$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aRacism in museum exhibits$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aRacism in anthropology$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMuseum exhibits$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aHuman remains (Archaeology)$xRepatriation$zAustralia.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPublic opinion.
651 0 $aEurope$xPublic opinion.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0414/2004000470.html
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852 00 $bbar$hGN666$i.P55 2004