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Robert Bogdan

Freak Show

Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit

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From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today's standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative--the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America's most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan's fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncoveri… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-226-06312-6
  • EAN: 9780226063126
  • Produktnummer: 9191044
  • Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Masse: H15.4 cm x B22.9 cm x D2.5 cm 548 g
  • Auflage: New ed
  • Gewicht: 548
  • Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor


Robert Bogdan is professor of special education, cultural foundations of education, and sociology at Syracuse University.

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