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028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _b;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092 _c;BW/005586 _d;13/11/2019
082			_a305.8007 QUR
100			_aSadiah Qureshi
245			_aPeoples on parade _b: exhibitions, empire, and anthropology in nineteenth century Britain _c/Sadiah Qureshi
260			_aChicago ; London _b : University of Chicago Press _c, 2011.
300			_a382 pages _c;29 cm.
365			_b4228
505			_aIntroduction: Ladies and Gentlemen, I Bring You . . .; Part One: Street Spectacles; 1: Glimpsing Urban Savages; 2: Artful Promotion; Part Two: Metropolitan Encounters; 3: Managing Performance; 4: Recruiting Entertainers; 5: Interpreting Exhibitions; Part Three: The Natural History of Race; 6: Transforming "Unfruitful Wonder"; 7: The End of an Affair; Conclusion: Afterlives; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Terminology; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
520			_aIn May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the & ldquo;savages at Hyde Park Corner, & rdquo; an exhibition of thirteen imported Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs and dances to a & ldquo;witch-hunt & rdquo; and marriage ceremony. Dickens was not the only Londoner intrigued by these & ldquo;living curiosities & rdquo;: displayed foreign peoples provided some of the most popular public entertainments of their day. At first, such shows tended to be small-scale entrepreneurial speculations of just a single person or a small group. By the end of the century, performers were being imported.
650			_aPolitical Science
655			_aAnthropology in popular culture -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
700			_aSadiah Qureshi
942			_cBOOK