The continued legacy of ‘human zoos’

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Most people today would be repulsed at the idea of exhibiting human beings on the basis of racial difference, yet notions of Western superiority have endured in institutions with colonial pasts, like museums. Opinion | ZaraChoudharyX

announced in 1895, predicting that the event would be “certain to prove very attractive to the public at large” and “of great practical interest for all who are concerned in the development of colonization and trade in the dark continent.” Spectators arriving at London’s glistening Crystal Palace would be greeted not with ‘African’ artefacts, but Africans themselves, ‘exhibited’ alongside huts and wild animals.

This was not a new phenomenon; the use of living ‘exotic’ peoples — i.e. not white — for exhibition, has been documented from the 15th century onwards. And a form of this practice endures to this day. As advances in technology allowed European powers to embark on ‘voyages of discovery’ to the far corners of the globe, ‘natives’ were often brought home to be paraded as ‘trophies’ acquired on the expedition.

Colonial natives, recruited by contract for the express purpose, were exhibited in costume with props and painted backdrops that signalled their cultural backgrounds and ‘natural settings.’ Aside from their ‘entertainment value’, these exhibitions were, in essence, part of a global display of Western cultural and economic superiority.

Those exhibited in life, often found themselves exhibited in death too. Saartje Baartman , was a South African Khoikhoi woman exhibited at freak shows in Britain under the name Hottentot Venus, due to her unusually enlarged buttocks. She was later exhibited in France, after having been sold to an animal trainer, and by now, she was effectively enslaved.

 

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