Samer på ville veger? Om ”levende utstillinger”, antropologi og vitenskapelige praksiser

Authors

  • Cathrine Baglo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.3298

Keywords:

live exhibitions, representations of cultural otherness, ANT, immutable mobiles

Abstract

During the 19th century, new practices emerge in the western represen- tation of cultural otherness. One of these – whose importance is often disregarded by Academia, was the practice of exhibition of living “natives” in zoological gardens, amusement parks and circuses. By seeing these exhibitions as ‘immutable mobiles’, I am trying to demonstrate how these became instrumental for the “success” of racial discourse, by contributing to moving facts around to make them take on an apparent universality. 

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