LEADER 04692nam 2201009Ia 450 001 9910778402703321 005 20230724185100.0 010 $a1-282-35997-5 010 $a9786612359972 010 $a0-520-94489-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520944893 035 $a(CKB)1000000000811831 035 $a(EBL)470936 035 $a(OCoLC)503092483 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000310060 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11282545 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000310060 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10287253 035 $a(PQKB)11534141 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056151 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30407 035 $a(DE-B1597)518839 035 $a(OCoLC)1013183343 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520944893 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL470936 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10343493 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235997 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470936 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000811831 100 $a20090306d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe spectacle of deformity $efreak shows and modern British culture /$fNadja Durbach 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) 311 0 $a0-520-25768-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction / Exhibiting Freaks --$t1 / Monstrosity, Masculinity, and Medicine: Reexamining "the Elephant Man" --$t2 / Two Bodies, Two Selves, Two Sexes: Conjoined Twins and "the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy" --$t3 / The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle: Evolution, Imperialism, and "Primitive" Sexuality --$t4 / Aztecs and Earthmen: Declining Civilizations and Dying Races --$t5 / "When the Cannibal King Began to Talk": Performing Race, Class, and Ethnicity --$tConclusion / The Decline of the Freak Show --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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 "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. 606 $aAbnormalities, Human$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFreak shows$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 610 $a1847. 610 $aanthropology. 610 $abritish culture. 610 $acannibal kings. 610 $aconjoined twins. 610 $acultural otherness. 610 $acultural studies. 610 $adeformity. 610 $adisability. 610 $aelephant man. 610 $aeuropean history. 610 $aexploitation. 610 $afreak show performers. 610 $afreak shows. 610 $agreat britain. 610 $ahuman bodies. 610 $aimperial ideology. 610 $alalloo. 610 $amissing link. 610 $amodern history. 610 $amodern identity. 610 $amodern sensibilities. 610 $anational identity. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $apsychology. 610 $ascientists. 610 $asocial history. 610 $asocial issues. 610 $asocial purpose. 610 $asocial purposes. 615 0$aAbnormalities, Human$xHistory 615 0$aFreak shows$xHistory 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects$xHistory 676 $a791.35094109034 700 $aDurbach$b Nadja$f1971-$01474514 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778402703321 996 $aThe spectacle of deformity$93688271 997 $aUNINA