Por more than a century, the great colonizing powers exhibited like wild beasts human beings torn from their native land. Traced in this fascinating documentary, this practice has served interests. Their names are Petite Capeline, Tambo, Moliko, Ota Benga, Marius Kaloïe and Jean Thiam. Fuegian from Patagonia, Aboriginal from Australia, Kali'na from Guyana, Pygmy from Congo, Kanak from New Caledonia, these six, like 35000 others between 1810 and 1940, were torn from their distant land to respond to the curiosity of a public in search of exoticism, in the great Western metropolises. Presented as fairground monsters, even as cannibals, exhibited in veritable human zoos, they were a source of distraction for more than one and a half billion Europeans and Americans, who came to discover them with their families at the circus or in reconstituted indigenous villages, during major universal and colonial exhibitions.
Human zoos and colonial exhibitions
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Release Date | 2011-11-03T00:00:01Z |
Language | French |
Number Of Pages | 500 |
Publication Date | 2011-11-03T00:00:01Z |