Naturalized seeing/colonial vision : interrogating the display of races in late nineteenth century France

In August 1877, fourteen Africans from Nubia were exhibited among giraffes, camels and elephants for the gaze of the Parisian public at the Jardin d'Acclimatation, a botanical and zoological garden founded to "acclimatate, breed and disseminate to the public animal and vegetable specie...

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Main Author: Wan, Marilyn
Language:English
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3208