Staged otherness : ethnic shows in Central and Eastern Europe, 1850-1939 / edited by Dagnosław Demski and Dominika Czarnecka

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Acknowledgments1. Dominika Czarnecka and Dagnoslaw DemskiINTRODUCTION: FROM WESTERN TO PERIPHERAL VOICESPART ONEEuropean Versus Indigenous Agency2. Hilke Thode-AroraTHE HAGENBECK ETHNIC SHOWS: RECRUITMENT, ORGANIZATION, AND ACADEMIC AND POPULAR RESPONSE3. Bodhari WarsameA BRIEF HISTORY OF STAGING SOMALI ETHNOGRAPHIC PERFORMING TROUPES IN EUROPE (1885-1930)4. Marketa Krizova"WILD CHAMACOCO" AND THE CZECHS: THE DOUBLE-EDGED ETHNOGRAPHIC SHOW OF VOJTECH FRIC, 1908-95. Evgeny SavitskyWHY HIDDEN EARS MATTER? ON KALINTSOV'S SAMOYED EXHIBITION IN VIENNA, 1882PART TWOPerforming the Ethnographic Other6. Dagnoslaw Demski(ETHNO-)DRAMA OF EXOTICISM. ETHNIC SHOWS AS A MEDIUM7. Dominika CzarneckaHOW DO THESE "EXOTIC" BODIES MOVE? ETHNOGRAPHIC SHOWS AND CONSTRUCTING OTHERNESS IN THE POLISH-LANGUAGE PRESS, 1880-19148. Kamila Baraniecka-OlszewskaTHE WORLD OF CREATION: POLISH- AND GERMAN-LANGUAGE PRESS ACCOUNTS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC SHOWS IN CIRCUS PERFORMANCES IN UPPER SILESIAPART THREEAcross Local Contexts9. Andreja Mesaric RACIALIZED PERFORMANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SLOVENE WHITENESS: ETHNOGRAPHIC SHOWS AND CIRCUS ACTS ON THE HABSBURG PERIPHERY, 1880-191410. Maria LeskinenA CENTURY OF ELISION? ETHNIC SHOWS IN SAINT PETERSBURG AND MOSCOW, 1879-191411. Izabela Kopania"WHEN WINTER ARRIVES, THE SINHALESE GO BACK TO CEYLON AND THEIR ELEPHANTS GO TO HAMBURG." HAGENBECK'S SINHALESE CARAVANS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC IMAGERY IN THE POLISH PRESS DURING THE PARTITION ERA12. Timea BarabasTHE CALL OF THE WILD: A SOCIOLOGICAL SKETCH OF BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST IN BANAT AND TRANSYLVANIA13. Istvan Santha"STAGED OTHERNESS" IN SAINT PETERSBURGEpilogueList of ContributorsIndex