Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments

Informationen zum Autor University of Washington Klappentext Eric Ames is assistant professor of German at the University of Washington. Zusammenfassung Carl Hagenbeck was the nineteenth century's foremost animal trader and ethnographic showman! known for his enormously popular displays of people! animals! and artefacts gathered from all corners of the globe. This book locates Hagenbeck's myriad enterprises in the context of colonialism and nascent globalization; and ethnography and anthropology.

Autorentext
Eric Ames is assistant professor of German at the University of Washington.

Klappentext
Eric Ames is assistant professor of German at the University of Washington.

Zusammenfassung
Carl Hagenbeck was the nineteenth century's foremost animal trader and ethnographic showman, known for his enormously popular displays of people, animals, and artefacts gathered from all corners of the globe. This book locates Hagenbeck's myriad enterprises in the context of colonialism and nascent globalization; and ethnography and anthropology.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments

Color Plates

Introduction: Under the Sign of Hagenbeck

1. The Business of Collecting

Vertical Integration

The Context of the Wild Animal Trade

The Task of the Traveler

Selection, Negotiation, and Professionalization

Cultural Displacement

2. The Living Habitat

"Anthropological-Zoological Exhibitions"

The Art of the Habitat

The Boundaries of Display

Sex, Race, and Colonial Authority

3. Hagenbeck's Turn to Fiction

The Wild West in Germany

"Carl Hagenbeck's India"

Enter the Realm of Fantasy

4. The Art of Hagenbeck's Zoo

"The New Panorama"

Labor, Landscape, and Sculpture

The Park as "Panorama"

The Treatment of Place

The Amusement Park Sublime

The Alterity of the Tierpark

5. The Park and the Cinema

The Image as Shared Space

The Set as Collection

The Park as Film Studio

Conclusion: The Future of Nineteenth-Century Theme Space

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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