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Umfang: 382 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 978-0-226-70096-0 , 0-226-70096-8

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Ethnologie

Schlagwort(e): Ethnologie ; Öffentlichkeit ; Imperialismus ; Völkerkundliche Schaustellung ; Ausstellungskatalog

URL: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=024446204&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA

URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=36318

URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=40833

URL: Rezension

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Umfang: xxvii, 285 Seiten : , Illustrationen, 1 Karte.

ISBN: 978-0-226-67679-1 , 0-226-67679-X , 978-0-226-67665-4

Inhalt: "Time Travelers is a book about the different and complex ways in which Victorians approached the past, offering a vivid new picture of the Victorian world and its historical obsessions. Although the nineteenth century was not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of the Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of lasting importance. It gave rise, for example, to many of our modern disciplines, and the accessibility of these new pasts to ever broader social groups gave them unprecedented power to shape culture in ways that continue to structure our own engagements with the past."

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-226-67682-1

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Geschichte , Anglistik

Schlagwort(e): Rezeption ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

Mehr zum Autor: Beard, Mary, 1955-

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p) , 24 halftones

Ausgabe: [Online-Ausgabe]

ISBN: 9780226676821

Inhalt: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: Narratives -- 1 Looking to Our Ancestors -- 2 Looking Around the World -- 3 The World Beneath Our Feet -- Part Two: Origins -- 4 Ad Fontes -- 5 In the Beginning -- 6 Under False Pretenses -- 7 Through the Proscenium Arch -- Part Three: Time in Transit -- 8 On Pilgrimage -- 9 Across the Divide -- 10 At Sea -- Part Four: Unfinished Business -- 11 Looking Forward -- 12 How We Got Here -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Index

Inhalt: The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of their preoccupations with the past were unprecedented and of lasting importance. The Victorians paved the way for our modern disciplines, discovered the primeval monsters we now call the dinosaurs, and built many of Britain’s most important national museums and galleries. To a large degree, they created the perceptual frameworks through which we continue to understand the past. Out of their discoveries, new histories emerged, giving rise to fresh debates, while seemingly well-known histories were thrown into confusion by novel tools and methods of scrutiny. If in the eighteenth century the study of the past had been the province of a handful of elites, new technologies and economic development in the nineteenth century meant that the past, in all its brilliant detail, was for the first time the property of the many, not the few. Time Travelers is a book about the myriad ways in which Victorians approached the past, offering a vivid picture of the Victorian world and its historical obsessions

Anmerkung: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7208/9780226676821

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Umfang: 1 online resource (382 p.) : , ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.)

ISBN: 9780226700984 (ebook) :

Inhalt: In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the 'savages at Hyde Park Corner,' an exhibition of 13 Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs & dances to a 'witch-hunt' & marriage ceremony. This text explores this & similar phenomena that fascinated 19th century Londoners.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version ISBN 9780226700960

Sprache: Englisch

URL: Chicago scholarship online

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Umfang: 1 online resource (391 p.)

ISBN: 1-283-24233-8 , 9786613242334 , 0-226-70098-4

Inhalt: In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the "savages at Hyde Park Corner," an exhibition of thirteen imported Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs and dances to a "witch-hunt" and marriage ceremony. Dickens was not the only Londoner intrigued by these "living curiosities": displayed foreign peoples provided some of the most popular public entertainments of their day. At first, such shows tended to be small-scale entrepreneurial speculations of just a single person or a small group. By the end of the century, performers were being imported by the hundreds and housed in purpose-built "native" villages for months at a time, delighting the crowds and allowing scientists and journalists the opportunity to reflect on racial difference, foreign policy, slavery, missionary work, and empire. Peoples on Parade provides the first substantial overview of these human exhibitions in nineteenth-century Britain. Sadiah Qureshi considers these shows in their entirety-their production, promotion, management, and performance-to understand why they proved so commercially successful, how they shaped performers' lives, how they were interpreted by their audiences, and what kinds of lasting influence they may have had on notions of race and empire. Qureshi supports her analysis with diverse visual materials, including promotional ephemera, travel paintings, theatrical scenery, art prints, and photography, and thus contributes to the wider understanding of the relationship between science and visual culture in the nineteenth century. Through Qureshi's vibrant telling and stunning images, readers will see how human exhibitions have left behind a lasting legacy both in the formation of early anthropological inquiry and in the creation of broader public attitudes toward racial difference.

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction: Ladies and Gentlemen, I Bring You ... -- , 1. Glimpsing Urban Savages -- , 2. Artful Promotion -- , 3. Managing Performance -- , 4. Recruiting Entertainers -- , 5. Interpreting Exhibitions -- , 6. Transforming "Unfruitful Wonder" -- , 7. The End of an Affair -- , Conclusion: Afterlives -- , Acknowledgments -- , Appendix: Terminology -- , Abbreviations -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , English

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7208/9780226700984

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Umfang: 1 online resource (391 p.)

ISBN: 1-283-24233-8 , 9786613242334 , 0-226-70098-4

Inhalt: In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the "savages at Hyde Park Corner," an exhibition of thirteen imported Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs and dances to a "witch-hunt" and marriage ceremony. Dickens was not the only Londoner intrigued by these "living curiosities": displayed foreign peoples provided some of the most popular public entertainments of their day. At first, such shows tended to be small-scale entrepreneurial speculations of just a single person or a small group. By the end of the century, performers were being imported by the hundreds and housed in purpose-built "native" villages for months at a time, delighting the crowds and allowing scientists and journalists the opportunity to reflect on racial difference, foreign policy, slavery, missionary work, and empire. Peoples on Parade provides the first substantial overview of these human exhibitions in nineteenth-century Britain. Sadiah Qureshi considers these shows in their entirety-their production, promotion, management, and performance-to understand why they proved so commercially successful, how they shaped performers' lives, how they were interpreted by their audiences, and what kinds of lasting influence they may have had on notions of race and empire. Qureshi supports her analysis with diverse visual materials, including promotional ephemera, travel paintings, theatrical scenery, art prints, and photography, and thus contributes to the wider understanding of the relationship between science and visual culture in the nineteenth century. Through Qureshi's vibrant telling and stunning images, readers will see how human exhibitions have left behind a lasting legacy both in the formation of early anthropological inquiry and in the creation of broader public attitudes toward racial difference.

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction: Ladies and Gentlemen, I Bring You ... -- , 1. Glimpsing Urban Savages -- , 2. Artful Promotion -- , 3. Managing Performance -- , 4. Recruiting Entertainers -- , 5. Interpreting Exhibitions -- , 6. Transforming "Unfruitful Wonder" -- , 7. The End of an Affair -- , Conclusion: Afterlives -- , Acknowledgments -- , Appendix: Terminology -- , Abbreviations -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , English

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7208/9780226700984