Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Sadiah Qureshi

Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Sadiah Qureshi

392 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 Lond...

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