A World on Display: Photographs from the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2000
Description:
In 1904, St. Louis hosted a world's fair to commemorate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. In addition to offering a grand exposition of America's resources, the fair's organizers brought some 2,000 native peoples to St. Louis to take part in the most extensive anthropological exhibits ever assembled for a world's fair. The author has assembled seventy-five photographs of these "living exhibits" and explores what the photographs represented when they were made, how they were used, and what significance they hold for viewers today.
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As one of the fair's official historians noted, this sampling of the world's population was meant to provide fairgoers with an understanding of "the meaning of Anthropology". "These strange exhibitions of life, so foreign to (our) own, were all presented to furnish a living illustration of the various degrees of man's development on this earth". This book documents not only a particular world's fair but also an entire cultural attitude and world view, at a time when social Darwinism was in vogue and America had a new role as an overseas power. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the power of photographs and their many layers of meaning.
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