3. A Brief History of Staging Somali Ethnographic Performing Troupes in Europe, 1885–1930

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction: From Western to Peripheral Voices 1
5. I. European versus Indigenous Agency
6. 2. The Hagenbeck Ethnic Shows: Recruitment, Organization, and Academic and Popular Responses 43
7. 3. A Brief History of Staging Somali Ethnographic Performing Troupes in Europe, 1885–1930 77
8. 4. “Wild Chamacoco” and the Czechs: The Double-Edged Ethnographic Show of Vojtěch Frič, 1908–9 101
9. 5. Why Hidden Ears Matter: On Kalintsov’s Samoyed Exhibition in Vienna, 1882 137
10. II. Performing the Ethnographic Other
11. 6. The (Ethno-)Drama of Exoticism: Ethnic Shows as a Medium 165
12. 7. How Do These “Exotic” Bodies Move? Ethnographic Shows and Constructing Otherness in the Polish-Language Press, 1880–1914 201
13. 8. The World of Creation: Press Accounts of Ethnographic Shows in Circus Performances in Upper Silesia 233
14. III. Across Local Contexts
15. 9. Racialized Performance and the Construction of Slovene Whiteness: Ethnographic Shows and Circus Acts on the Habsburg Periphery, 1880–1914 255
16. 10. A Century of Elision? Ethnic Shows in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, 1879–1914 295
17. 11. “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 Era 329
18. 12. The Call of the Wild: A Sociological Sketch of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Banat and Transylvania 367
19. 13. “Staged Otherness” in Saint Petersburg 399
20. Epilogue 433
21. List of Contributors 439
22. Index 443