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Freak show : presenting human oddities for amusement and profit / Robert Bogdan. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990. - XIII, 322 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Tipologia Bibliografia/Fonte
Data cronica
1990

Descrizione

1. Introduction: In search of freaks
I. Freak show: The institution
2. From Tavern to Madison Square Garden: A chronicles of the freak show in America
3. Step right up: The world of popular amusement
4. Exotic and aggrandized: Modes of presenting freaks
II. Profiles of presentation
5. The exhibition of people we now call mentally retarded
6. Illusions of grandeur
7. Cannibles and savages
8. Respectable freaks
9. Self-made freaks
10. Conclusione: Freak encounter

Luogo di edizione

Chicago

ISBN

0226063127

Paese

US

Lingua

ENG Inglese

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