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UNINA9910454828703321 |
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Durbach Nadja <1971-> |
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Titolo |
The spectacle of deformity [[electronic resource] ] : freak shows and modern British culture / / Nadja Durbach |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2009 |
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1-282-35997-5 |
9786612359972 |
0-520-94489-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Abnormalities, Human - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Freak shows - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Human body - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Exhibiting Freaks -- 1 / Monstrosity, Masculinity, and Medicine: Reexamining "the Elephant Man" -- 2 / Two Bodies, Two Selves, Two Sexes: Conjoined Twins and "the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy" -- 3 / The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle: Evolution, Imperialism, and "Primitive" Sexuality -- 4 / Aztecs and Earthmen: Declining Civilizations and Dying Races -- 5 / "When the Cannibal King Began to Talk": Performing Race, Class, and Ethnicity -- Conclusion / The Decline of the Freak Show -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's "prevailing taste for deformity." This vividly detailed work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference. Nadja Durbach examines freaks both well-known and obscure including the Elephant Man; "Lalloo, the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy," a set of conjoined twins advertised as half male, half female; Krao, a seven-year-old hairy Laotian girl who was marketed as Darwin's |
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"missing link"; the "Last of the Mysterious Aztecs" and African "Cannibal Kings," who were often merely Irishmen in blackface. Upending our tendency to read late twentieth-century conceptions of disability onto the bodies of freak show performers, Durbach shows that these spectacles helped to articulate the cultural meanings invested in otherness--and thus clarified what it meant to be British-at a key moment in the making of modern and imperial ideologies and identities. |
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UNINA9910819902903321 |
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Autore |
Turner Daniel R |
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Grave Reminders : Comparing Mycenaean Tomb Building with Labour and Memory |
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, : Sidestone Press, , 2020 |
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©2020 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (314 pages) |
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Tombs |
Greece |
Civilization, Mycenaean |
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures & -- tables -- Introduction -- 1.4. Forecast: from catalogue blueprints to transient experience -- 1.3. Advancing objectives: comparative labour and grave reminders -- 1.2. Case studies and reasoning -- 1.1. Place and purpose -- Setting -- 2.1. Mycenaean tomb development -- 2.4. Summary -- 2.3. Sponsor's gamble -- 2.3.1. Costly signalling with tombs -- 2.3.2. Risks of investment: the expected standard -- 2.3.3. Cost and altruism in cooperative labour -- 2.2. The rock canvas -- 2.2.1. Physiography of southern Greece -- 2.2.2. Soil mechanics and risks -- Artists at work: logistics in cooperative earthmoving energetics -- 3.5. Summary -- 3.4. Measuring success -- 3.4.1. Modelling tombs |
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with photogrammetry -- 3.4.2. Finding sameness with Euclidean distance -- 3.3. Tracking progress from household to cooperative labour -- 3.3.1. Preindustrial construction logistics -- 3.3.2. Labour rates -- 3.2. Further projections on time constraints -- 3.1. Construction planning and alignment: pragmatic signalling -- A labour catalogue with multi-use tombs -- 4.4. Summary -- 4.3. Voudeni -- 4.2. Portes -- Portes Tumuli B and C groups -- 4.1. Menidi -- Reminders -- 5.5. Concluding summary -- 5.4. Labouring toward forgetting -- 5.3. Interpreting tomb scale and sameness -- 5.2. End-stage from LH IIIC Achaea -- 5.1. Building legacy in the early LH -- References Cited -- Other tombs -- Appendix 2 -- Digital collection of excess tomb models -- English summary -- Nederlandse samenvatting -- Curriculum Vitae -- Blank Page -- Blank Page. |
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Explores how Mycenaean builders perceived tomb construction, its costs and rewards. |
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