Human zoo

id: human-zoo-208-5612553
title: Human zoo
text: Human zoos, also known as ethnological expositions, were public displays of people, usually in a so-called "natural" or "primitive" state. They were most prominent during the 19th and 20th centuries. These displays sometimes emphasized the supposed inferiority of the exhibits' culture, and implied the superiority of "Western society", through tropes that purported marginalized groups as "savage". They then developed into independent displays emphasizing the exhibits' inferiority to western cultu
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description: Public exhibits of humans
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo
date created: 2004-07-30T02:07:15Z
date modified: 2024-09-11T08:37:12Z
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