Corps éclatés : représenter l’Africain au muséum d’histoire naturelle de Toulouse (1875-1990)

The museum of natural history of Toulouse was funded in 1865. It purchased ten busts made of plaster from the Museum of Paris, its national equivalent. Some of these busts were of African persons. It was usual in anthropological practice to display parts of bodies of colonial people in this way. But...

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Main Author: Pierre Bourrasse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA) 2016-09-01
Series:Les Cahiers de Framespa
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/framespa/3962

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