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Africans on stage : studies in ethnological show business / edited by Bernth Lindfors.

By: Lindfors, Bernth
Language: English Publisher: Bloomington; Cape Town : Indiana University Press; David Philip, 1999.Description: xv, 302p. : ill. ; 26cm.ISBN: 0253212456
Contents:
Contents: Display of the body Hottentot / Z.S. Strother; Charles Dickens and the Zulus / B. Lindfors; Africa meets the Great Farini / Shane Peacock; "Spectatorial lust": the African choir in England, 1891-93 / Veit Erlmann; "Darkest Africa": African shows at America's World's Fairs / R.W. Rydell; A revelation in strange humanity: six Congo Pygmies in Britain, 1905-07 / Jeffrey P. Green; Ota Benga and the Barnum perplex / Harvey Blume; "Clicko": Franz Taaibosch, South African Bushman entertainer in England, France, Cuba and the United States, 1908-40 / Neil Parsons; Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LaBagola and the making of An African savage's own story / D. Killingray, Willie Henderson; "Bain's Bushmen": scenes at the Empire exhibition, 1936 / Robert J. Gordon.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KY [LIN-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M39011
Total holds: 0

Includes references.

Contents: Display of the body Hottentot / Z.S. Strother; Charles Dickens and the Zulus / B. Lindfors; Africa meets the Great Farini / Shane Peacock; "Spectatorial lust": the African choir in England, 1891-93 / Veit Erlmann; "Darkest Africa": African shows at America's World's Fairs / R.W. Rydell; A revelation in strange humanity: six Congo Pygmies in Britain, 1905-07 / Jeffrey P. Green; Ota Benga and the Barnum perplex / Harvey Blume; "Clicko": Franz Taaibosch, South African Bushman entertainer in England, France, Cuba and the United States, 1908-40 / Neil Parsons; Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LaBagola and the making of An African savage's own story / D. Killingray, Willie Henderson; "Bain's Bushmen": scenes at the Empire exhibition, 1936 / Robert J. Gordon.