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Saturday 21 January 2012
Quai Branly lifts the lid on human zoos
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The exhibition “Human zoos – inventing the savage”
Musée du quai Branly / Gautier Deblonde
By Alison Hird

Long before TV, cinema and playstations gave us all home entertainment, people flocked in their millions to colonial fairs, cabarets and freak shows to marvel over exotic peoples such as pygmies, zulus, eskimos and aborigines. The exhibition “Human zoos – inventing the savage” at Paris’s Quai Branly museum traces the development of these human zoos and their role in building racism. All the better to dismantle it!

 

tags : Art - Culture - Exhibition - Paris
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