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Informationen zum Autor Eric Ames is assistant professor of German at the University of Washington. Klappentext Eric Ames is assistant professor of German at the University of Washington. Zusammenfassung Carl Hagenbeck was the nineteenth century's foremost animal trader and ethnographic showman! known for his enormously popular displays of people! animals! and artefacts gathered from all corners of the globe. This book locates Hagenbeck's myriad enterprises in the context of colonialism and nascent globalization; and ethnography and anthropology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Color Plates Introduction: Under the Sign of Hagenbeck 1. The Business of Collecting Vertical Integration The Context of the Wild Animal Trade The Task of the Traveler Selection, Negotiation, and Professionalization Cultural Displacement 2. The Living Habitat "Anthropological-Zoological Exhibitions" The Art of the Habitat The Boundaries of Display Sex, Race, and Colonial Authority 3. Hagenbeck's Turn to Fiction The Wild West in Germany "Carl Hagenbeck's India" Enter the Realm of Fantasy 4. The Art of Hagenbeck's Zoo "The New Panorama" Labor, Landscape, and Sculpture The Park as "Panorama" The Treatment of Place The Amusement Park Sublime The Alterity of the Tierpark 5. The Park and the Cinema The Image as Shared Space The Set as Collection The Park as Film Studio Conclusion: The Future of Nineteenth-Century Theme Space Notes Works Cited Index
