![]() Once people had seen what savages looked like and how different they were from them, they believed it, Blanchard says. ![]() Pascal Blanchard, an historian specialized in colonial history, says that "if people believed that something called 'the savage' existed, it wasn't because they'd been reading theoreticians of racial inequality such as the Nineteenth century writer Arthur de Gobineau, it was because they'd seen them! The slogan of the 1996 Chicago exhibition was 'Seeing is knowing'." But aside from the question of the exactions and humiliations suffered by people like him is that of the cause these exhibitions served. Such as the African pygmy boy Ota Benga who was displayed in a cage with a monkey in New York in 1896. Louis fair in the United States, for example, there were 20,000 actors from Africa, Asia, America. Popular entertainment The colonials were portrayed as supreme masters Image: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of OxfordĪlmost a billion people visited the grand exhibitions organized in Europe, the United States and Japan. It's the first time an exhibition has been made about what she said was a hidden episode in history. "For us it is very important to speak about this because this was real popular entertainment," she adds. "It's quite new that in museums we talk about the history of colonialism and this part of the story is completely unknown," Nanette Snoep, the Dutch woman who's in charge of the Quai Branly's colonial collection, says. It was like going to the zoo to see armadillos and giraffes. ![]() The show at the Quai Branly anthropological museum in Paris is called 'Exhibitions: the Creation of the Savage.' Another fitting title would have been 'Human Zoos.' The paintings, postcards, films, posters on display chart the way non-Europeans were put on show during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Äuring the colonial era thousands of native people were paraded before Europeans at universal and colonial exhibitions which were akin to circus freak shows.
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