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Professional savages : captive lives and western spectacle / Roslyn Poignant.

Poignant, Roslyn. (Author).

Summary:

"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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 030010247X (cl. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780300102475 (cl. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-293) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction : the journey -- 1. Meet the travellers -- 2. 'Now enough' -- 3. Colonial circuits -- 4. American spectacle : 'attractions of wonder' -- 5. European spectacle -- 6. Palaces of illusion and scientific discipline -- 7. 'Rare strangers' -- 8. To Constantinople and back -- 9. Absent presence : 'Billy -- Australien' at the Paris Exposition, 1889 -- 10. King Bill and company : the story of the second group -- 11. Welcome home Tambo.

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Subject:
Aboriginal Australians in popular culture > History > 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Public opinion.
Circus > History > 19th century.
Barnum and Bailey > History.
Racism in museum exhibits > History > 19th century.
Racism in anthropology > History > 19th century.
Museum exhibits > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Repatriation > Australia.
United States > Public opinion.
Europe > Public opinion.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Repatriation.
Popular culture.
Public opinion.
Racism in anthropology.
Racism in museum exhibits.
Australia.
Europe.
United States.
Genre:
History.

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