Reblogged from itzigani
The Musee de quai Branly has a superb-looking exhibition on about colonial exhibition. Despite its controversial beginnings, Jacques Chirac’s museum seems to be doing pretty well. About a year ago they had a fantastic show on the Négritude journal Présence Africaine. Human Zoos: The Creation of the Savage, is curated by Lilian Thuram, the footballer
HUMAN ZOOS, The invention of the savage unveils the history of women, men and children brought from Africa, Asia, Oceania and America to be exhibited in the Western world in circus numbers, theatre or cabaret performances, fairs, zoos, parades, reconstructed villages or international and colonial fairs. The practice started in the 16th Century royal courts and continued to increase until the mid-20th Century in Europe, America and Japan.
