{"id":79915,"date":"2025-01-25T20:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T20:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=79915"},"modified":"2025-05-16T22:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:19:26","slug":"human-zoos-the-invention-of-the-savage","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/human-zoos-the-invention-of-the-savage\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage<\/em> by <strong>Paul Blanchard; Gilles Bo\u00ebtsch; Nanette Jacomijn Snoep, <\/strong>New MINT paperback copy in wraps, still in publisher&#8217;s shrink wrap, perfect condition as issued,\u00a0 oversized 4to, 4lbs, insurance is\u00a0required due to value 382 pps, mostly color illustrations.\u00a0 Scarce! Actes Sud Editions, 2011<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage, curated by former French international footballer turned anti-racism campaigner Lilian Thuram, traces the history of a practice which started when Christopher Columbus displayed six &#8220;Indians&#8221; at the Spanish royal court in 1492 and went on to become a mass entertainment phenomenon in the 19th and early 20th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of spectators turned out to see &#8220;savages&#8221; in zoos, circuses, mock villages and freak shows from London to St Louis, Barcelona to Tokyo. These &#8220;human specimens&#8221;, and &#8220;living museums&#8221; served both colonialist propaganda and scientific theories of so-called racial hierarchies.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/nov\/29\/huam-zoo-paris-exhibition\">The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><i>Human Zoos<\/i>\u00a0offers a fascinating, sobering and macabre tour of man\u0019s exploitation of man&#8211;that is, Western man\u0019s exploitation of non-Western men and women&#8211;as recorded throughout the early history of photography, from the 1860s to the 1930s and the invention of \u001chumane exhibiting\u001d of nonwhite persons. Freak shows, the circuses of Buffalo Bill and P.T. Barnum and European colonial exhibitions provided the occasions for most of these images, several of which were incorporated into posters, postcards and other ephemera, designed with an improbable jauntiness.\u00a0<i>Human Zoos\u00a0<\/i>traces the evolution of such paradigmatic conceptions as \u001cspecimen,\u001d \u001csavage\u001d and \u001cnative\u001d for the designation of peoples as various as Native Americans, Asians and Africans from all corners of the continent. As horrific and compelling as it is brilliantly researched and compiled, this volume unflinchingly surveys the very recent history of the West\u0019s arrogant abuse of those deemed to fall outside its brutal terms of civilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage by Paul Blanchard; Gilles Bo\u00ebtsch; Nanette Jacomijn Snoep, New MINT paperback copy in wraps, still in publisher&#8217;s shrink wrap, perfect condition as issued,\u00a0 oversized 4to, 4lbs, insurance is\u00a0required due to value 382 pps, mostly color illustrations.\u00a0 Scarce! Actes Sud Editions, 2011 &#8220;Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":79916,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[195,171],"product_tag":[585,871,872],"class_list":["post-79915","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-curiosa-uncategorical","product_cat-history-biographies-memoires","product_tag-freaks","product_tag-human-zoos","product_tag-rare-books","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/79915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=79915"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=79915"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=79915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}